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After-Dinner Coffee (recto)
by Mary Cassatt
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
inscribed in grahite, lower right: "M. C."
Provenance
?-1919: Alfred Beurdeley II [1847-1919], Paris 1920: (his ninth sale, Galerie Georges Petit, November 30-December 2, 1920, no. 82, sold to M. Mayer) 1920-?: M. Mayer ?-1941: Armand Dorville [1875-1941], Paris/Cubjac 1942: (his sale, Hall du Savoy, Nice, June 24-27, 1942 [deuxième vacation, June 25], no. 238, sold to M. Imbert, Cannes) 1942-?: M. Imbert, Cannes after 1942-before 1974: (James Vigeveno Galleries, Los Angeles, CA) ?-1974: (Jules Brassner, New York, NY, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) 1974-2008: Muriel Butkin [1915-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2009-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
- Date
- c. 1889
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2009.137.a
More by Mary Cassatt in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011536
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