Introduction: Here below you will find an impression of the 11+1hc=12 works that Mary Cassatt showed at the 4th ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1879 (catalogue numbers 46-56+hc). Most of them were portraits. Some of them are pearls of impressionist painting (see especially no.48+49), see how she renders the influence of light and shade on the colour of the skin and the dresses and the brightness of the colours. No.46 is made in a more traditional style.
I render the pictures by format, number and theme. Some suggestions are (very) uncertain, sometimes I render more than one option, see account. Sometimes I only could find a black and white picture; than to compare I will render a similar painting. See link for the subscriptions and see for the sources at the bottom of the main page on Mary Cassatt . Note: If you double click on the first (of a cluster of) pictures and then click on full screen, you can create a slideshow. Enjoy!
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-47, Portrait de petite fille. Maybe: 1878, CR56, Portrait of a Little Girl (in a blue armchair), 89×129, NGA Washington (iR2;iR59;R44,p53;R3,p592;R90II,p126;R187,no56;R2,p267). Compare: S1877-R.
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-54, Au théâtre (pastel). Perhaps: 1879, CR61, Theater (in the loge), pastel +metallic paint, 65×81, Philadelphia MA (iR59;R90II,p109+127;R84,p307;R187,no61;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-56, Dans un jardin =1880ca, CR92, In the meadow (no.1), oil + gouache, 61×82, xx (R187,no92;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-56, Dans un jardin (couleur à la détrempe). Compare: 1880, CR93, On the meadow (no.2), 54×65, private (iR208;iR10;R187,no93;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-56+hc, In the Box. Now: 1879, CR62, A Corner of the Loge (In the Box), 43×62, private (iR2;iR92;iR3;R2,p256;R90II,p127;R187,no62)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-56+hc, Coin de loge. Compare: 1879/05/01, La Vie Moderne, Coin de Loge, dr, (R90I,p254)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-46, Portrait de M.C… Probably: 1871, CR49, Portrait of Mr. Robert Simpson Cassatt, 67×56, private (iR64;iR10;iR203;R90II,p108+126;R2,p267;R187,no49)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-46, Portrait de M. C… Maybe: 1880, CR79, Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt, 101×81, private (iR92;iR10;iR7;R187;R90II,p108;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-53, Portrait de M. D… (pastel). Now: 1879, CR66, Moïse Dreyfus, pastel, 80×63, MPP Paris (iR2;iR92;R90II,p127;R2,p267;R187,no66;R44,p61)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-48, Étude de femme avec évantail. Maybe: 1877-80, CR80, Woman with a fan (Miss Mary Ellison), 85×65, NGA-Washington (iR92;iR2;iR3;iR59;R90II,p108+126;R187,no80;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-49, Femme dans un loge. Now: 1879, CR64, Woman with a Pearl Necklace (in a Loge), 81×59, Philadelphia MA (iR92;iR2;iR3;iR8;R2,p276;R90II,p127;R187,no64). Compare: 5IE-1880-25.
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-55, Au théâtre (pastel). Perhaps: 1878-80, CR72, At the theatre, gouache + pastel, 65×54, private (iR59;R90II,p109+127;R187,no72;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-47, Portrait de petite fille. Maybe(?): 1880 (or 1879), CR85, Portrait of a girl, 63×41, MBA Bordeaux (iR6;iR92;iR50;R187,no85;R2,p267;R90II,p108).
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-50, Tête de jeune fille. Maybe: 1875ca, CR40, young woman with red hair before a woods, 60×48, xx (R187,no40;R2,p267;R90II,p108) Henri Rouart collection.
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-50, Tête de jeune fille. Maybe(??): 1876, Head of a young girl, 32×23, MFA Boston (iR92;iR2;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-52, Femme lisant. Compare: 1879, Jeune Femme lisant, dr, Les Beaux-Arts Illustrés, 1879,no84 (R90I,p254;R2,p267)
Mary Cassatt, 4IE-1879-51, Portrait de Mlle P… Maybe??: 1879ca, CR71, A visitor in hat and coat holding a Maltese dog, 35×27, private (iR92;iR2;R2,p267;R187,no71). Compare: 5IE-1880-17.
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