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MARY CASSATT (1844-1926)
Peasant Mother and Child
drypoint and aquatint in colors, on laid Arches paper, circa 1894, a fine impression, the colors particularly vibrant of the tenth (final) state, signed in pencil, from the proposed edition of approximately 50, with the artist's blue monogram ink stamp (Lugt 604), with margins, framed
Image: 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (298 x 241 mm.)
Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 1/4 in. (307 x 438 mm.)
Provenance
Gift from the artist to her second cousin, Mrs. Thomas A. Scott
Thence by descent to Edgar Scott, her grandson
Property from the Collection of Edgar and Helen Hope Montgomery Scott; Christie's, New York, 29 April 1996, lot 84.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
A.D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt. A Catalogue Raisonne of the Graphic Work, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 159.
‌N.M. Mathews and B.S. Shapiro, Mary Cassatt, the Color Prints, New York, 1989, no. 17.

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