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In the Opera Box (No. 3) [recto]
1880
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall (approximate): 21.2 x 16 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1946.21.82.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Mary Cassatt. In the Opera Box (No. 3) [recto]. Mary Cassatt; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Cassatt,_In_the_Opera_Box_(No._3)_(recto),_1880,_NGA_33339.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
In the Opera Box (No. 3) [recto] — Mary Cassatt. 1880.
Medium: graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (approximate): 21.2 x 16 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1946.21.82.a. 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.