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Date: Executed circa 1909.

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Description: SIGNED AND DATED (MAKER'S MARKS)
Signed Mary Cassatt (lower right)

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Medium: Pastel on paper laid down on canvas

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Dimensions: 28 1/2 by 22in. (72.3 by 59.7cm)

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Provenance: Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist)

Marlborough Fine Art, London

Mr. and Mrs. David Meltzer, Toronto (acquired from the above in October 1955)

By descent to the present owner

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Exhibited: Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Seventh Biennale, 1919-29, no. 109

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., 1953, no. 14 (titled Tête de Femme au Grand Chapeau Bleu)

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, European Paintings in Canadian Collections, 1962, no. 38

Toronto, Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian National Exhibition, A Tribute to Women, 1960

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, December, 1979 (on extended loan)

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Published: Adelyne Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Washington, 1970, no. 564 (titled Dora in a Large Round Blue Hat)