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Drawing for "Standing Nude"

Mary Cassatt · c. 1879

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Artist

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926

Date

c. 1879

Type

Drawing & watercolour

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper, traced over for soft ground etching with offset of soft ground on verso, showing through

Size

28.2 × 18.3 cm (11 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)

Place

United States

Period

19th century

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 72, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift to the Frank B. Hubachek Collection from the Marjorie H. Watkins Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules