TitleThe Map (or) The Lesson
Date1889-1890
MediumDrypoint in brown ink on paper
DimensionsImage size: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 in.
Sheet size: 10 × 12 3/4 in.
Mat size: 16 × 20 in.
SignedSigned in graphite at lower right: "Mary Cassatt".
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Samuel Colman, 1903
Object number1981.514
Label TextFrom 1890 Cassatt had a printing press at home, and pulled images on her own press. The print "The Map" or "The Lesson" may be one of the images she exhibited in March 1890, as part of a group of 12 drypoints specifically intended to be seen as a series. Typically, her prints combine sparing use of detail with the application of many fine lines that delicately model the figures. Cassatt declined election to the Academy because she no longer resided in America and did not plan to return-she had moved to France at the age of twenty 20, thereby beginning her life-long expatriation.
1889-1890
