After-Dinner Coffee (recto)
1889
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker.
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
After-Dinner Coffee (recto) is a 1889 by Mary Cassatt, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows two women sitting at a small table after dinner, drinking coffee. Their dresses are dark and simple. One woman pours from a white pot while the other holds her cup close. Cassatt often painted women in quiet moments like this. She used soft lines to show gentle light falling on the scene. The background is plain so your eyes stay on the women. The Cleveland Museum of Art has 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.
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Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker.
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