Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery
Medium
etching, softground etching, aquatint, and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 36.3 × 26.6 cm · platemark: 30.2 × 12.6 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Accession Number
1947.459
Tags
About this artwork
Degas and his friends Mary Cassatt and Camille Pissarro were all experimental printmakers who combined traditional printmaking techniques to create a black and white equivalent for the tonality and varied textures of paintings. They were all so involved in printmaking that in 1879–80 they planned to publish a journal, Le Jour et la nuit (Day and Night), that would contain original etchings. As a printmaker, Degas was ambivalent about when a plate was considered finished. What attracted him to pr...