Gathering Fruit

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

about 1893

Medium/Technique Drypoint, soft ground etching, and aquatint in color

Dimensions Platemark: 42.2 x 29.5 cm (16 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 50 x 38.5 cm (19 11/16 x 16 5/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of William Emerson and The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund

Accession Number41.813

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Breeskin 157 (state not in Breeskin); Mathews and Shapiro 15, ix/xi

State M&S ix/xi

DescriptionPrinted from 3 plates; Only known impression of this state

Signed Not signed

Marks Fortuna on globe with VDL and VanderLey watermark

InscriptionsRecto: in graphite, lower left corner: L (in script); in graphite, lower right corner: art dernier état 85I (illeg.)

ProvenanceJean Goriany, from whom purchased by MFA Nov. 13, 1941