Mary CASSATT (1844-1926) - Lot 5

Mary CASSATT (1844-1926) Portrait of a Young Woman in a White Hat, 1879 Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the left. (Re-tooled). 46 x 38 cm Provenance : Estate of Madame B., Paris. Probably acquired around 1950 and kept in the family ever since. Exhibitions : - Cent Ans de Peinture française, Galerie Schmit, Paris, May 7 - June 7, 1969. - Pour mon plaisir : XIXe-XXe siècles, Galerie Schmit, Paris, May 12 - July 22 1982, catalog, no. 21, reproduced. Bibliography: - Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt, A Catalogue raisonné of the Oils, Watercolours and Drawings, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1970, no. 68, reproduced on p. 52. - Le Figaro, Vie Culturelle, La Face cachée des grands maîtres, May 26 1982, reproduced p. 28. We would like to thank Madame Elizabeth Royer for her provenance research on this work.