Mary Cassatt

Drypoint, c. 1905, signed in pencil, on laid paper with the Van Der Ley watermark, framed

Estate of J. Harris Whittemore, Naugatuck, Connecticut
Connor Contemporary, Washington, D.C.
Alan Hillburg, Alexandria, Virginia
Acquired by the present owner from the above in the early 1990s

With full margins, in good condition. There are pale traces of mat stain at the sheet edges and occasional minor surface soiling, four tiny tears at the right and upper sheet edges, the longest measuring 1/4 in. There is a tiny imperfection in the paper (appearing as a raised fiber) just above and to the right of the mirror.
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Breeskin cites only one other known impression, in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.