Art, literature & history
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
1879–80
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1929.877
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edgar Degas. Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery — Edgar Degas. 1879–80.
Medium: softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and etching. Dimensions: Platemark: 26.7 x 23.2 cm (10 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
This print is one of two in which Edgar Degas depicted Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia at the Musée du Louvre. In this iteration of the subject, Casatt gazes intently at an Etruscan tomb, about 500 BC, excavated at Cerveteri, the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. Cassatt is viewed from behind while the enigmatically smiling couple, lying on top of a sarcophagus and enclosed in a glass case, face the viewer. Cassatt confronts the sculpture directly while Lydia reads about it in a guidebook.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.