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Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
Artist: Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
Date: 1879-1880
Dimensions:
image: 10 1/2 x 9 3/16 in. (26.7 x 23.3 cm)
Medium: Mixed intaglio (including softground etching, line etching, drypoint, and aquatint)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund
Object number: 1955.22
Label Text:Mary Cassatt, an American artist living in France, contemplates the Sarcophagus of the Spouses in the Etruscan Gallery of the Louvre. She is absorbed in the art around her, and neither the viewer nor the seated figure of Lydia, her sister, can see her face. Degas and his colleagues Bracquemond, Pissarro, and Cassatt avidly experimented with printmaking techniques at this time. All four were involved in an unrealized project to launch a journal of prints to be called Le Jour et la Nuit (Day and Night), for which this work was intended. Evidence of Degas’ love of Japanese prints is seen here in the flattened shapes and in Cassatt’s long, narrow silhouette.
The antiquities department in the Musée du Louvre (which opened in 1793) was formed around the former French royal collections and has been added to continually for the enjoyment of visitors and scholars. Here we see noted American painter Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), , standing, and her sister Lydia (1837–1882) spending time in the Louvre’s Etruscan Gallery, enjoying one of its greatest works of art: the Sarcophagus of the Spouses from about 520 BCE.
The antiquities department in the Musée du Louvre (which opened in 1793) was formed around the former French royal collections and has been added to continually for the enjoyment of visitors and scholars. Here we see noted American painter Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), , standing, and her sister Lydia (1837–1882) spending time in the Louvre’s Etruscan Gallery, enjoying one of its greatest works of art: the Sarcophagus of the Spouses from about 520 BCE.
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