Lydia Reading

Provenance

Alexis Hubert Rouart (1839–1911), Paris [his stamp (Lugt 4898), lower right corner, in purple and verso lower left corner, in black]. Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris. Henri Petiet (1894–1980), Saint-Prix, France. Sold, Ader, Paris, May 25, 2023, lot 101, to Agnews SRL, Brussels; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

Lydia Reading

Mary Cassatt

1880-81

Accession Number

272034

Medium

Aquatint, with soft ground etching and drypoint, on cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 17.9 × 11.2 cm (7 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.); sheet: 30.8 × 22.5 cm (12 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Classification

prints and drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment Fund