Art, literature & history
Before the Fireplace (No. 1)
c. 1882
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- softground etching and aquatint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 16 x 20.6 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.) sheet: 21.6 x 30.3 cm (8 1/2 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.5.466
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Mary Cassatt. Before the Fireplace (No. 1). 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,_Before_the_Fireplace_(No._1),_c._1882,_NGA_36920.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Before the Fireplace (No. 1) — Mary Cassatt. c. 1882.
Medium: softground etching and aquatint on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 16 x 20.6 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.) sheet: 21.6 x 30.3 cm (8 1/2 x 11 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.5.466. 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.