On a Balcony

1. The artist; with Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, by 1903 [New York 1903, cat. 10; letter from Charles Durand-Ruel to Mary Carton, Dec. 14, 1978; copies in curatorial object file; inscription on stretcher: D.R. N.Y 2707]; sold to Mrs. Delia Spencer Field (1853–1937; also Mrs. Arthur John Caton, Mrs. Marshall Field), Washington, DC, 1922 [notation in Catherine Beveridge’s catalogue according to letter from Albert J. Beveridge, III, Jan. 30, 1979; <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 1938, 58; handwritten note on incoming permanent receipt R6498, Jan. 14, 1938; copies in curatorial object file]; by descent to her niece, Catherine Eddy Beveridge (also Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge), Washington, DC [letter from Robert B. Harshe to Mrs. Beveridge, Dec. 10, 1937; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• <em>Fifth Impressionist Exhibition</em>, 1880.
• New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, <em>Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt</em>, Nov. 5–21, 1903, cat. 10, as <em>Femme Lisant dans un Jardin</em>.
• Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, <em>Fifth Exhibition Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists</em>, Dec. 15, 1914–Jan. 24, 1915, cat. 73, as <em>Woman Reading in a Garden</em>.
• San Francisco, Department of Fine Arts, <em>Panama–Pacific International Exposition</em>, June 2–Sept. 6, 1915, cat. 3006, as <em>Woman Reading in a Garden</em>.
• MA, Worcester Art Museum, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by Modern French Masters, lent by Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York, New York</em>, Dec. 2–30, 1917, cat. 1, as <em>Woman Reading in a Garden</em>.
• New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, <em>Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt</em>, Nov. 15–Dec. 4, 1920, cat. 8.
• Art Gallery of Toronto, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary American Artists</em>, Jan. 8–Feb. 6, 1921, cat. 17, as <em>Femme Lisant dans un Jardin</em>, 1880.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, <em>Memorial Exhibition of Works of Mary Cassatt</em>, Apr. 30–May 30, 1927, cat. 27, as <em>Portrait of the Artist’s Sister, Miss Lydia Cassatt in a Garden</em>, 1881.
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, <em>A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Mary Cassatt</em>, Mar. 15–Apr. 15, 1928, cat. 7 as <em>Girl Reading in a Garden</em>, or cat. 44, as <em>Woman Reading</em>.
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, <em>Survey of American Painting</em>, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 199.
• Decatur Art Center, IL, <em>Masterpieces of European and American Art</em>, Mar. 4–25, 1945, cat. 2.
• Springfield Art Association, IL, <em>Masterpieces of European and American Art</em>, Apr. 4–30, 1945, cat. 2.

• “The Cover,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 32, 4 (Apr./May 1938), 58, cover, ill.
• “Chicago: Two American Impressionist Works for the Art Institute,” Art News 36, 35 (May 28, 1938), 20 (ill.)
• “Carnegie Institute Presents Great Survey of American Painting,” Art Digest 15, 35 (May 28, 1938), 20 (ill.)
• Forbes Watson, “The Land of the Free,” Magazine of Art 33, 11 (Nov. 1940), 622 (ill.).
• Margaret Breuning, Mary Cassatt, (New York, Hyperion Press, 1944) p. 20 (ill.).
• Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 69.
• Frederick A. Sweet, "Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt in the Collection of The Art Institute," <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 2 (1967): 33–49, fig. 2 (ill.), as <em>Woman Reading in a Garden</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4108780">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4108780</a>.
• Adelyn D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt, A Catalogue Raisonné, (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970) cat. 94.
• Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 262–65, no. 127.
• Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 21.
• Jennifer A. Thompson, et al., <em>Mary Cassatt at Work</em>, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024), 194–95, 283, cat. 114 (ill.).

Mother and Child (Baby Getting Up from His Nap)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Young Mother Sewing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mother and Child with a Rose Scarf

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gardner and Ellen Mary Cassatt

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Boating

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mother and Child

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Antoinette's Caress (No. 1)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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