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| Artiste: | Cassatt, Mary (1845 - 1926) |
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| Titre: | Sara Smiling, c. 1904 |
| Référence: | Breeskin 195 |
| Moyen: | Gravure à l'eau-forte |
| Taille d'image: | 9 3/16 in x 6 1/2 in (23.4 cm x 16.5 cm) |
| Taille de feuille: | 12 3/4 in x 10 1/8 in (32.4 cm x 25.7 cm) |
| Taille encadrée: | 25 in x 23 |
| Edition: | A late impression printed from the original plate, with additional hand coloring. |
| Condition: | This work is in very good condition, with a pronounced plate mark and wide margins. |
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Cassatt returns to a favored subject in this drypoint etching. From underneath her familiar blond curls, little Sara smiles at something unseen, looking very much a poster child for innocence. |
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| Description historique: | |
| Sara's likeness appears again and again in Cassatt's sketches and oil paintings,
one of the many children to inhabit the artist's world. The loose style of Sara
Smiling lends a sense of spontaneity to the print; owing to the subject's young
age, Cassatt would have had to work quickly to record the child's likeness before
she broke her pose to go play. The viewer will appreciate, as does catalogue
raisonné author Adeyln Dohm Breeskin, the artist's treatment of her models:
"wholly of this world, completely human, observed with penetrating awareness
of reality and absolute honesty and directness" (18). Achille Segard cites
a similar "emotional lyricism that is revealed, in her work, through faces,
gestures, and movements alone" (Cassatt: A Retrospective, 130). Whether
focused on a nursing mother or on children playing, Cassatt's talent derives
from her intuitive connection to the human element in any scene.
Created from the original plate, this work features additional hand coloring in pastel shades. Sara Smiling, an original drypoint etching, is a state I (of I) print with full margins and a pronounced plate mark. DOCUMENTED AND ILLUSTRATED IN: 1. Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Original drypoint etching listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 195. About the Framing: | |
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La biographie de Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt (1845 - 1926)
Mary Cassatt captures the personal lives of women through her drawings and etchings. Cassatt especially concentrated on the bond between mother and child. Under the guidance of Impressionist artists, Cassatt's works became increasingly popular.
Mary Cassatt was born in Allegheny City (Pennsylvania) and died in Le Mesnil-Theribus (Oise). The daughter of a banker, she moved with her family to Paris in 1851. From 1853 to 1855 she lived at Heidelberg and Darmstadt. From 1861-1865 she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in the studio of Charles Chaplin in Paris. In 1868 she exhibited for the first time at the Salon. While studying at the Academy Raimondi in Parma in 1871, she copied Correggio and Parmigianino and became an admirer of Velazquez and Rembrandt. In 1873 she traveled to Madrid, Seville, Belgium and the Netherlands, and made copies especially of Velazquez and Rubens, before finally settling in Paris. There she met Edgar Degas in 1877, who suggested her joining the Impressionists. Her work was greatly influenced by Degas and Renoir, taking as principal subject portraits of women and children. Cassatt took part in the IV to VI and again in the VIII Impressionist exhibition. Her own work was shown by Durand-Ruel in 1891. In 1898 she visited the United States, went to Italy and Spain in 1901, and for the last time to the United States in 1908. In 1910 she became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. In 1914 she was awarded the gold medal of the Pennsylvanian Academy of Art. Cassatt gradually lost her sight and was compelled to give up painting. It was due to her efforts that French Impressionism became known and understood in America, and also thanks to her initiative that the Havemeyer collection, now at the New York Metropolitan Museum, came into being.
