Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée

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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)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Charlotte Hanes in memory of her husband, R. Philip Hanes Jr., and gift of anonymous donors

Object number2013.9

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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.Published ReferencesCamille Mauclair, L’impressionisme: son histoire, son esthétique, ses maitres (Paris: Librarie de l’art ancient et moderne 1904), fol. 208 (as Portrait), illus.

Achille Segard, Mary Cassatt: Un Peintre des Enfants et des Mères (Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff, 1913), 65.

Edith Valerio, Mary Cassatt (Paris: Les Editions G. Crès et Cie., 1930), illus., pl. 2 (as Portrait).

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970), no. 54 (as Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (b-w).

The Art of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) (exhibition catalogue), (Tokyo: Isetan Museum of Art, 1981), cat. no 9 (as Miss Buchanan Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (color), p.27 and p.94.

Mary Cassatt: An American Observer (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1984), no. 4 (as Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (color).

Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt (New York: Harry, N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), 28–30, 43, no. 23, illus. (as Portrait of a Woman (Harriet Buchanan?) Dressed for the Matinée, illus. (color).

The United States in Literature (“America Reads” Series) (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1989), 418, illus. (color).

Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998), 129, 141, illus. (b-w) 143, fig. 103 (as Dressed for the Matinée).

Women Impressionists, Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein, eds. (exhibition catalogue) (Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2008), p. 129 (as Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (color).

[Adelson Galleries, Inc., Mary Cassatt: A New Catalogue Raisonne (online database: www.marycassatt.com, site currently under construction (1/13).]

“North Carolina Museum of Art acquires Mary Cassatt painting ‘Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée’,” artdaily.org, January 23, 2014:
http://artdaily.com/news/67644/North-Carolina-Museum-of-Art-acquires-Mary-Cassatt-painting--Portrait-of-Madame-X-Dressed-for-the-Matin-e-

John Coffey, “Mary Cassatt’s Madame X,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 2014), 24–27, illus. (color) 25.
Exhibition HistoryPossibly New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, “Exposition of Paintings, Pastels and Etchings by Miss Mary Cassatt,” April 16–30, 1895, no. 20 (as Portrait, 1877, lent by a private collector).]

Zürich, Kunsthaus [per Palais Galliéra catalogue].

[Paris?] Galerie des Beaux-Arts, “Portraits de femmes,” no. 435 [per Palais Galliéra catalogue].

New York, NY, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Impressionist Paintings, January 6–February 1, 1964, no. 4 (as Portrait of Madame B.).

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, “Mary Cassatt, 1844–1926,” September 27–November 8, 1970, no. 9 (as Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (b-w).

Tokyo, Japan, Isetan Museum of Art, “The Art of Mary Cassatt (1844–1926),” June 11–July 7, 1981; Nara, Japan, Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, July 18–August 23, 1981, no. 9 (as Miss Buchanan Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (color).

New York, NY, Coe Kerr Galleries, “Mary Cassatt: An American Observer,” October 3–27, 1984, no. 4 (as Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (color).

Charleston, SC, Gibbes Art Gallery, “Spoleto at the Gibbes: Tenth Anniversary Tribute,” May 23–June 30, 1986, listed 13 (as Miss Harriet Buchanan Dressed for the Opera), illus. (color) 5.

Chicago, IL, Chicago Art Institute, “Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman,” October 10, 1998–January 10, 1999, Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, February 14–May 9, 1999; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, June 6–September 6, 1999 (as Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée), no. 8, illus. (color).

Frankfurt, Germany, Schirn Kunsthalle, “Impressionistinnen: Morisot, Cassatt, Gonzalès, Bracquemond,” February 22–June 1, 2008; San Francisco, CA, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (as “Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond,” June 21–September 21, 2008, p. 129 (as Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée), illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 29, 2024.

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