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The Fitting

Mary Cassatt American
1890–91
Not on view
An experimental printmaker, Cassatt monitored her developing designs by printing early impressions and intermediary states in black. These stand alone as independent works of art and compare meaningfully to　later color impressions of the same image. In this impression of The Fitting, the only known example of a　second state, the artist delineated the scene’s essential elements with a sure hand; she would add the lines indicating the wall and mirror at a later stage. When the brothers Arthur and Paul J. Sachs gave early and final states of Cassatt’s set to the Department of Prints at its founding in 1916, the color states came from Paul and those printed in black ink from Arthur.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Fitting
  • Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)
  • Date: 1890–91
  • Medium: Drypoint and soft-ground etching, printed in black ink from one plate; second state of seven (Mathews & Shapiro)
  • Dimensions: plate: 14 7/8 x 10 1/16 in. (37.8 x 25.6 cm)
    sheet: 16 3/16 x 12 1/2 in. (41.1 x 31.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Arthur Sachs, 1916
  • Object Number: 16.3.3
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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