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Source Description
This print is one of two in which Edgar Degas depicted Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia at the Musée du Louvre. In this iteration of the subject, Casatt gazes intently at an Etruscan tomb, about 500 BC, excavated at Cerveteri, the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. Cassatt is viewed from behind while the enigmatically smiling couple, lying on top of a sarcophagus and enclosed in a glass case, face the viewer. Cassatt confronts the sculpture directly while Lydia reads about it in a guidebook.
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Document identity
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111372
label
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
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print
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1
Source metadata
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111372
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print
title
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
description
This print is one of two in which Edgar Degas depicted Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia at the Musée du Louvre. In this iteration of the subject, Casatt gazes intently at an Etruscan tomb, about 500 BC, excavated at Cerveteri, the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. Cassatt is viewed from behind while the enigmatically smiling couple, lying on top of a sarcophagus and enclosed in a glass case, face the viewer. Cassatt confronts the sculpture directly while Lydia reads about it in a guidebook.
date
1879–80
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q80003419
creators
1759
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Print
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1929.877
Source extras
tec
softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching
tombstone
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery, 1879–80. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching; platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1929.877
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cream (3) laid paper
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PR - Etching
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VI/IX (only known impression of this state)
citations
citation
Richards, Louise S. “Mary Cassatt’s Drawing of the Visitor.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 8 (October 1978): 268–276.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 273, fig. 7
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Reed & Shapiro 51
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The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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2026-05-29 05:53:39.696000
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111372
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Prints
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PR - Etching
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softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching
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male
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Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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