Mary Cassatt
Portrait Head of a Friend
1879
Physical Qualities
Graphite, Sheet: 224 x 142 mm. (22.4 x 14.2 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.669
3/4 view of a woman; hair up; ear ring. VERSO: indecipherible sketch.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore, 1931; Galerie A-M Reitlinger, Paris, Mathilde X Sale, 1931, no. 134; Mathilde Valet, Paris, 1927.
Galerie Reitlinger, Paris, 1931, no. 134.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Nov. 28, 1941-Jan. 11, 1942, no. 67 [unpaginated].
Sona Johnston and Victor Carlson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'American Watercolors and Drawings: Selections from the Collection', March 1-May 15, 1983.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 60, no. 113.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad,' June 11-Oct. 12, 2003.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Mary Cassatt', Nov. 28, 1941-Jan. 11, 1942, no. 67 [unpaginated].
Sona Johnston and Victor Carlson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'American Watercolors and Drawings: Selections from the Collection', March 1-May 15, 1983.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 60, no. 113.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad,' June 11-Oct. 12, 2003.
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: The Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1985, p. 186.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 252, no. 729, ill. p. 252.
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1967, p. 71, no. 172 [not reproduced].
Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, stamp, 'Collection / Mary Cassatt / Mathilde X' (Lugt Suppl. 2665a).
