Art, literature & history
The Letter
1890-1891
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 34.61 × 21.11 cm (13 5/8 × 8 5/16 in.) sheet: 44.6 x 27.5 cm (17 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1950.1.40
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Mary Cassatt. The Letter. Mary Cassatt; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Letter — Mary Cassatt. 1890-1891.
Medium: color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 34.61 × 21.11 cm (13 5/8 × 8 5/16 in.) sheet: 44.6 x 27.5 cm (17 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1950.1.40. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.