Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt

(11) Nancy Mowll Mathews provides important information on Cassatt's relationship with her dealers in Mary Cassatt: A Life (Villard Books, New York, 1994), especially pp. 281-282.

(12) Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings (Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 1970), p. 18.

(13) Ibid., Nos. 270, 313, 327, 365, 374, 376, 382, 427, 429, 439, 446, 449, and 459.

(14) For further discussions of Cassatt's mural, see Sally Webster, Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman: A Mural by Mary Cassatt (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2004); Judith Barter, "Mary Cassatt: Themes, Sources, and the Modern Woman," in Barter, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, pp. 87-97; and Ivinski, "Mary Cassatt," pp. 341-353.

(15) Cassatt to Bertha Palmer, October 11, 1892; quoted in Mathews, Mary Cassatt: A Life, p. 207.

(16) Illustrated in Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, No. 241.

(17) Susan Sidlauskas discusses this aspect of Vuillard's art in "Contesting Femininity: Vuillard's Family Pictures," Art Bulletin, vol. 78 (March 1997), pp. 85-111.

(18) On this topic, see Ivinski, "Mary Cassatt," vol. 2, pp. 469-472.

(19) [Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake], "The Life and Works of Raphael," Edinburgh Review, vol. 157 (January 1883), p. 191.

(20) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; illustrated in Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, No 412 (where it is entitled Woman in an Orange Wrapper Holding Her Nude Baby).

(21) Brooklyn Museum, New York; illustrated ibid., No. 325.

(22) Illustrated in Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Graphic Work, No. 218.

(23) Illustrated in Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, No. 348.

(24) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; illustrated ibid., No. 424.

(25) Author's translation of Pierre Hepp, "Petites Expositions: Exposition Mary Cassatt," La Chronique des arts et de la curiosite, April 1908, p. 147. In addition to various paintings and prints, Vollard showed thirty-seven pastels in his 1908 exhibition of Cassatt's works. Though very few of these pictures have been positively identified, it is possible that some were counterproofs.

(26) The pastel is in a private collection; illustrated in R. Stanley Johnson, Mary Cassatt: Retrospective Exhibition (R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1997), No. 10.

PAMELA A. IVINSKI is the senior research associate for the Mary Cassatt Catalogue Raisonne Committee, which is sponsored by Adelson Galleries in New York City.

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