Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée
Artist
Mary Cassatt
(American, 1844–1926, active in France 1871–1926)
Date1877–1878
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions39 5/8 x 31 13/16 in. (100.6 x 80.8 cm)
Frame: 50 x 42 1/2 in. (127 x 108 cm)
Frame: 50 x 42 1/2 in. (127 x 108 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Charlotte Hanes in memory of her husband, R. Philip Hanes Jr., and gift of anonymous donors
Object number2013.9
On View
On viewCollections
Provenance**Created Paris, 1877–1878; collection of the artist, Paris; Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris, before 1913; [possibly with Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 1956]; Mme. R.G. Lanvin; [Palais Galliéra, Paris, December 5, 1960, no. 23, illus. (as Jeune femme assise), illus. (color) cover]; [Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, by 1964]; [Stephen Hahn, New York, and Eugene Thaw & Co., New York, 1966]; sold jointly to Ralph Philip Hanes Sr. (1898–1973), his wife, Dewitt Chatham Hanes (1899–1990), and daughter-in-law Joan Humpstone Hanes (1928–1983), Winston-Salem, NC, 1971; Ralph Philip Hanes Jr. (1926–2011), Winston-Salem, NC (1983?); bequeathed to wife, Charlotte Hanes, Winston-Salem, 2011; acquired by NCMA, 2013.
Charles-Émile-Auguste Durand, known as Carolus-Duran
1885
