Cleveland Museum of Art
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-568c79847d76
- Date
- 1879–80
- Medium
- softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 111372
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This print is one of two in which Edgar Degas depicted Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia at the Musée du Louvre. In this iteration of the subject, Casatt gazes intently at an Etruscan tomb, about 500 BC, excavated at Cerveteri, the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. Cassatt is viewed from behind while the enigmatically smiling couple, lying on top of a sarcophagus and enclosed in a glass case, face the viewer. Cassatt confronts the sculpture directly while Lydia reads about it in a guidebook.
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- The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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