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In the Opera Box (No. 3)

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
about 1880

Medium/Technique Soft ground etching, etching and aquatint
Dimensions Platemark: 20.6 x 18.6 cm (8 1/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 35.8 x 27.5 cm (14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Henri M. Petiet, confirmed by his estate
Accession Number2001.691
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Breeskin 022, v/vii (Breeskin counts only iv states; this one is not in Breeskin)
State v/vii
Signed Initialed
InscriptionsRecto: in graphite, beneath plate, lower right: M.C; in graphite, lower left corner: C; in graphite, lower center: ADB 22 - V ND; in graphite, lower right: corner No. 41 (in Petiet's hand)
ProvenanceHenri M. Petiet (b. 1894 - d. 1980), Paris; 2001, gift of the Petiet estate to MFA. (Accession Date: October 2, 2001)