The Coiffure
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Mary Cassatt
American (1844 - 1926) Primary
The Coiffure
1890-1891
Drypoint and soft-ground etching
State:
Fifth state
14 3/8 in. x 10 1/2 in. (36.51 cm x 26.67 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
1949.16
Geography:
North and Central America, United States
Classification:
Fine and Visual Arts; Prints
Culture/Nationality:
American
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- aquatints - Prints produced from designs created by the aquatint process, by which a printing plate is covered with a coating and etched with acid so as to create a range of tonal values, often combined with line work. The resulting print resembling a watercolor.
- dressing chairs - Eighteenth-century term referring to chairs, particularly those used by women, located in the dressing room.
- dressing glasses - Small freestanding mirrors, usually supported on a standing frame within which the glass can be adjusted, designed to be used on a dressing table. Dressing glasses are sometimes made with a boxlike base fitted with small drawers.
- drypoint - Intaglio process in which a sharp needle scratches the plate creating a burr that yields a characteristically soft and velvety line in the final print.
- genre
- soft-ground etchings - Prints made using the process of soft-ground etching.
- women - Refers to female human beings from young adulthood through old age.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Mirrors and Masks: Reflections and Constructions of the Self Bryn Mawr College , Mar 23, 2017 – Jun 4, 2017
- Worlds to Discover: 125 Years of Collections at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College , Sep 24, 2010 – May 28, 2011
- Cassatt-Neel-Kilmnik: Painted Faces Moore College of Art , Jan 17, 2002 – Feb 25, 2002
- A Picture of Mary Cassatt: Prints from the Bryn Mawr College Collection Kelly McCullough , Mar 17, 2000 – Mar 20, 2000
Bibliography List
The following Bibliography exist for this object:
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Carrie Robbins
and Steven Z. Levine.
Mirrors & Masks.
Bryn Mawr College.
Bryn Mawr, PA, March, 2017
Page Number: 34, Figure Number: Plate 7 - Mary Leahy, "Mary Cassatt: Her Color Prints at Bryn Mawr." Bryn Mawr Now 9, No. 2 (November 1981): 1, 6-7.
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Jeanne Randolph,
Mary Cassatt, Alice Neel, Karen Kilimnik: Painted Faces
Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002
Page Number: 31 -
Suzanne G. Lindsay,
Mary Cassatt and Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1985
Page Number: 88, Figure Number: 50
Catalogue Raisonné List
The following Catalogue Raisonné exist for this object:
- Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979), 65, 148. Figure Number: 152
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