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拍品 27
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Louisine Peters
已结束2016年3月23日
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USD 245,000
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This painting will be included in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Doehme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.
Mary Cassatt's images of women and children, specifically her close friends and family, are among the most remarkable examples of American Impressionism. Louisine Peters is a particularly lovely, intimate version, poignantly capturing the thoughtfulness of a young woman in transition from childhood to adulthood. Peters was the niece of the artist’s close friend and avid art collector Louisine Elder Havemeyer. Her parents—Havemeyer’s sister Adaline Elder and Samuel T. Peters, a New York coal dealer and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—came to know the artist on family trips to Paris. The present work was likely commissioned when the sitter was about sixteen years old.
Here Cassatt demonstrates her deft handling of the pastel medium, conveying a sense of tenderness and openness through truly skillful expression of the nuances of human form. Peters’ gaze is fixed on an unknown object or activity off to the left of the picture plane or perhaps her mind simply wanders in contemplation. The portrait glows with life, from the peachy tones in her cheeks to the glint in her eye and her casual posture. Cassatt uses the pastel in vibrating layers of color to express the warmth and vitality of her sitter’s flesh, responding to the velvety, tactile qualities of the medium. The result is an informal and sentimental rendering of the subject, reflecting youthful health and beauty, as well as hinting at the inner workings of a female mind.
Louisine Peters went on to marry Harold H. Weekes, a New York stockbroker and football star at Columbia University. She later married her second husband the Russian-born composer and pianist Alexandre Tcherepnine. The present work remained in the sitter’s family until its previous auction in 1984.
Mary Cassatt's images of women and children, specifically her close friends and family, are among the most remarkable examples of American Impressionism. Louisine Peters is a particularly lovely, intimate version, poignantly capturing the thoughtfulness of a young woman in transition from childhood to adulthood. Peters was the niece of the artist’s close friend and avid art collector Louisine Elder Havemeyer. Her parents—Havemeyer’s sister Adaline Elder and Samuel T. Peters, a New York coal dealer and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—came to know the artist on family trips to Paris. The present work was likely commissioned when the sitter was about sixteen years old.
Here Cassatt demonstrates her deft handling of the pastel medium, conveying a sense of tenderness and openness through truly skillful expression of the nuances of human form. Peters’ gaze is fixed on an unknown object or activity off to the left of the picture plane or perhaps her mind simply wanders in contemplation. The portrait glows with life, from the peachy tones in her cheeks to the glint in her eye and her casual posture. Cassatt uses the pastel in vibrating layers of color to express the warmth and vitality of her sitter’s flesh, responding to the velvety, tactile qualities of the medium. The result is an informal and sentimental rendering of the subject, reflecting youthful health and beauty, as well as hinting at the inner workings of a female mind.
Louisine Peters went on to marry Harold H. Weekes, a New York stockbroker and football star at Columbia University. She later married her second husband the Russian-born composer and pianist Alexandre Tcherepnine. The present work remained in the sitter’s family until its previous auction in 1984.