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Young Girl Reading, (painting). Artist:  Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter. Title:  Young Girl Reading, (painting). Other Titles:  Pensive Reader, (painting). Jeune fille lisant, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1894. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Pastel on paper. Dimensions:  21 7/16 x 17 7/8 in. Inscription:  (Lower left:) Mary Cassatt signed Description:  Portrait of a young girl seated at a table, her body facing front, her head resting against her left hand, her gaze directed down toward a book on the table, and her right hand fingering the pages of the book. She wears a blue dress with a pink shirt underneath. Subject:  Figure female -- Waist length Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading Object -- Written Matter -- Book Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue at 8th Street, S.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 86.853 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Yamanaka & Co., New York, New York Tadamasa Hayashi, Tokyo, Japan 1913. Wheeler, Charles V., American Art Association, New York, New York Sale (Nov. 1, 1935). Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York Sale (Oct. 28, 1970), lot 40. Hirshhorn, Joseph H., 1970-1981. Bequest of Hirshhorn, Joseph H., 1981. References:  Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 235. "Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art," Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1996, pg. 14. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection printout, 2008. Illustration:  Image on file. Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, pg. 114. "Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art," Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1996, pg. 14. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 80170235   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 80170235 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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