Young Girl Reading (Jeune Fille Lisant)
date: label: Date
content: (c. 1894)
name: label: Artist
content: Mary Cassatt, American, b. Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, 1844–1926
notes: label: Provenance
content: Tadamasa Hayashi, Tokyo and Paris, 1913
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Co., New York
label: Provenance
content: Charles V. Wheeler, Washington DC (sale: American Art Association -Anderson Galleries, 1 November 1935, lot 37)
label: Provenance
content: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 28 October 1970, lot no. 40.
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington DC, 28 October 1970-31 August 1981
label: Provenance
content: Estate of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981-1986
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest," 7 August-16 November 1989.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. "Comparisons: An Exercise in Looking," 11 December 1990-21 April 1991, ill in the exhibition brochure.
label: Exhibition History
content: See file for further info.
label: Published References
content: BREESKIN, ADELYN DOHME. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1970), no. 235, ill. p. 114.
label: Published References
content: ALLEN, JANE ADDAMS. "Hirshhorn's best unveiled," Wasington Times (8 August 1986), p. C1. ill.
label: Published References
content: RICHARD, PAUL. "Hirshhorn: A Collector's Touch," Washington Post (9 August 1986), pp. D1, D8. ill.
label: Published References
content: BURCHARD, HANK. "Now Everyone's a Critic," Washington Post Weekend (14 December 1990), p. 55.
label: Published References
content: UNSIGNED. Winter/Spring 1991 Calendar: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1991), ill.
label: Published References
content: KILIAN, MICHAEL. "Advance and retreat," Chicago Tribune (10 January 1991), p. 12.
label: Published References
content: WELZENBACH, MICHAEL. "How to be an Art Critic," Washington Post (13 January 1991).
label: Published References
content: See file for further info.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
label: On View
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 86.853
objectType: label: Type
content: Drawing
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pastel on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21 7/16 × 17 7/8 in. (54.5 × 45.5 cm) [irreg.]