Tea
Mary Cassatt
(1844 Allegheny City, PA. – Château de Beaufresne, Mesnil-Theribus 1926)
Tea ca. 1890
etching on laid paper
7 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (181 x 156 mm); sheet 13 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (352 x 213 mm)
watermark: coat of arms
provenance
Robert Hartshorne, New York (Lugt 2215b)
thence by descent
Breeskin 133 fifth (final) state
A superb impression of the final state which was printed in an edition of 25. The drypoint effects in this impression are unusually rich; this must therefore clearly been one of the earliest pulls within the edition.
This is one of twelve drypoints (Breeskin 127-138) that were shown in Durand-Ruel’s Cassatt exhibition in 1893.