After-Dinner Coffee (verso)
Medium
transferred soft (etching) ground
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2009.137.b
Tags
female
About this artwork
Cassatt exhibited prints for the first time in 1880 at the fifth Impressionist exhibition. As the decade progressed, she continued to show her graphic work alongside pastels and paintings. In the spring of 1890, at the Deuxième Exposition de Peintres-Graveurs, she showed a group of drypoints, remarkable in their delicacy and precision, as well as a group of prints made with a combination of aquatint and softground etching that appeared quickly drawn and spontaneous. After-Dinner Coffee is a stud...