En Déshabillé (While Undressing) (also called Italian Girl)

Mary Cassatt

1844–1926

En Déshabillé (While Undressing) (also called Italian Girl), circa 1889

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: laid paper; drypoint

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 184 x 137 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 265 x 202 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 1/4 x 5 3/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 7/16 x 7 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 11 in

Credit line: Bequest of George and Annette Cross Murphy

Accession number: 1989.0177

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Exhibition Label: "American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939," Apr-2004, Reed Anderson Perhaps best known as the only American painter-and one of three women-to exhibit with the Impressionists in Paris, Mary Cassatt was also an accomplished printmaker. Around 1880 she began to sketch friends and family members in drypoint. "En Déshabillé" is an example of this work. In the print a young women is shown undressing; she turns her head slightly to look over her right shoulder at the intruder-the viewer-who has interrupted this private moment. Open space surrounds the figure, the minimal shading and modeling calling attention to the quality of Cassatt’s line.