Lydia in a Loge

Artist Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)

Date1879

MediumPencil on paper

DimensionsSheet: 11 5/8 x 8 15/16 in. (29.5 x 22.7 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.47

Collections

ClassificationsWork on Paper

Object NameDrawing

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Nineteenth

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Signedbottom right: Mary Cassatt, faintly bottom center: Mary Cassatt

Exhibition HistoryMADE in PA on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, June 1 – September 8, 2024; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29 – May 1, 2022; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer; Palmer Museum of Art, January 18 – May 15, 2005.ProvenancePierre Monteux (possibly acquired before World War One) Monteux family, by descent Acquired in 1988 from Babcock Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesLa Vie moderne, August 9, 1879, 283 (ill.) [reproduced as a gillotage, as Dans une loge] Letter from Robert Cassatt to Alexander Cassatt, September 1, 1879, published in Nancy Mowll Mathews, ed., Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984), 147. Reprinted in Frederick A. Sweet, Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966), 46; and Joel Isaacson, The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878–1882 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1980), 81 Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984), xli (ill., fig. 22) [reproduced as a gillotage, as In the Opera Box] Ronald Pickvance, “Contemporary Popularity and Posthumous Neglect,” in Charles S. Moffett et al., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886 (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986), 261, 265 n. 108 Nancy Mowll Mathews, “The Color Prints in the Context of Mary Cassatt’s Art,” in Nancy Mowll Mathews and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989), 26, 54 n. 13 Michel Melot, The Impressionist Print (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996 [translation of L’Estampe Impressioniste (Paris: Flammarion, 1994)], 156, 282 n. 334 Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt: A Life (New York: Villard Books, 1994; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 140–41, 142 (ill., fig. 56) [as Drawing of Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge] Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013) 20, 27n27, 178, (ill. 21, 178)