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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Sleepy Nicolle
    Mary Cassatt. Sleepy Nicolle, c. 1900. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002460

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    Sleepy Nicolle

    by Mary Cassatt

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right: "Mary Cassatt"

    Provenance

    The artist to Ambroise Vollard (1867-939), Paris, 1904 [Chicago 1998; letter from Abris Silberman of July 2, 1953, in curatorial file]; to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York [Breeskin 1970]; to Dr. John Jay Ireland, Chicago, July 2, 1953 [letter mentioned above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt," January 14-February 25, 1954, pp. 32-33 (ill.), cat. 25, cat. by Frederick Sweet; also traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 25-May 23, 1954. New York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, "An Exhibition of Paintings for the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archaeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc." October 12-November 1, 1955, p. 41 (ill.), cat. 29. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," October 10, 1998-January 10, 1999, pp. 308 and 326, cat. 86 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013

    Publications

    The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 90. Frederick Sweet, "Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt," The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 2 (1967), p. 44, fig. 11. The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report (1967-1968), p. 26. Adelyn Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings (Washington, D.C., 1970), no. 318 (ill.), as Sleepy Nicolle. Sarah Webb and Kristen Fredrickson, Singular Women (Berkeley, 2003). Kathleen Pyne, Modernism and the Feminine Voice, O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle (California, November 2006).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Mary Cassatt / American, 1844-1926
    Date
    c. 1900
    Medium
    Pastel on blue-gray wove paper (faded to tan), mounted on board
    Dimensions
    71 × 58.5 cm (28 × 23 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
    Accession no.
    1968.81

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