After-Dinner Coffee (verso)
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
c. 1889
- Medium
- transferred soft (etching) ground
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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 study for a softground etching with aquatint.
