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In the Opera Box (No. 3)

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
about 1880

Medium/Technique Soft ground etching, etching and aquatint
Dimensions Platemark: 20.5 × 18.5 cm (8 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 29.6 x 21.5 cm (11 5/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Henri M. Petiet, confirmed by his estate
Accession Number2001.693
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Breeskin 022, vii/vii (Breeskin counts only iv states; this one is not in Breeskin)
State vii/vii
Signed Initialed
InscriptionsRecto: in graphite, beneath plate, lower right: M.C; in graphite, lower left corner: E; in graphite, lower center: ADB 22; in graphite, lower right edge: No. 41 (in Petiet's hand)
ProvenanceHenri M. Petiet (b. 1894 - d. 1980), Paris; 2001, gift of the Petiet estate to MFA. (Accession Date: October 2, 2001)