Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
1879–80
- Medium
- softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching
- Dimensions
- 26.7 × 23.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-201591
This print is one of two in which Edgar Degas depicted Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia at the Musée du Louvre. In this iteration of the subject, Casatt gazes intently at an Etruscan tomb, about 500 BC, excavated at Cerveteri, the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. Cassatt is viewed from behind while the enigmatically smiling couple, lying on top of a sarcophagus and enclosed in a glass case, face the viewer. Cassatt confronts the sculpture directly while Lydia reads about it in a guidebook.
Provenance
Harkness Endowment Fund, 1929.877
Registry history
- 1879–80 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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