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1. Study for Armchair Critic (1)
2. Study for Armchair Critic (2)
3. Armchair Critic (1)
4. Armchair Critic (2)
5. Armchair Critic (3)

The pictures I call “Armchair Critic” are versions of the same artwork.

Study for Armchair Critic (1)

Inscribed l.l. in pencil: E.520; l.l. in pencil: [erased numbers & letters]; l.c. in pencil: moa; l.r. in pencil: Mary Cassatt / R.H.; verso l.c. stamped in ink: RH [encircled]. A framed study for etchings of a similar pose. George Moore with a full beard is half-length seated in an upholstered armchair, turned to his left, both hands resting on his lap and holding an object (a newspaper?).

Owned by Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Museum purchase, Karl E. Weston Memorial Fund.

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Study for Armchair Critic (2)

Inscribed l.l. in pencil: E.520; l.l. in pencil: [erased numbers & letters]; l.c. in pencil: moa; l.r. in pencil: Mary Cassatt / R.H.; verso l.c. stamped in ink: RH [encircled]. A study for an etching in a similar pose. Two half-length figures of George Moore with full beard, in the background only slightly drawn and turned to his left, in the foreground more clearly drawn turned to his right. The foreground figure is seated in an armchair, hands on lap holding an object (a newspaper?).

Owned by Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Museum purchase, Karl E. Weston Memorial Fund.

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Armchair Critic (1)

Inscribed on the sheet (verso), l.r. along bottom edge of sheet stamped in red ink: ATÉLIER \ ED. DEGAS [in oval]. First state: drawn in soft-ground outlines on unevenly toned background. George Moore with full beard, half-length turned to his right, seated in an upholstered armchair. The left hand holding a document (newspaper?). First state with features more distinctly drawn.

Numbered 27 in Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work (1979), ed. Adelyn Dohme Breeskin. Owned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Another print of this etching is owned by Harvard University.

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Armchair Critic (2)

Inscribed (verso): Sheet, Verso, l.l. on white adhesive strip, in graphite: Br. 27; l.r. along bottom edge of sheet stamped in red ink: ATÉLIER \ ED. DEGAS [in oval]. George Moore with full beard, half-length turned to his right, seated in an upholstered armchair with a bold pattern. Both hands on his lap, the left hand holding a document (newspaper?). Second state: his features less distinctly outlined.

Numbered 27 in Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work (1979), ed. Adelyn Dohme Breeskin. Owned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Another print of this etching is owned by Harvard University.

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Armchair Critic (3)

Signed (in lower right) Mary Cassatt. Inscribed (in lower left) [illegible]. George Moore with full beard, half-length turned to his right, seated in an upholstered armchair with a bold pattern. Both hands on his lap, the left hand holding a document (newspaper?). Second state: his features less distinctly outlined.

Link to the owner’s page for this picture. Numbered 27 in Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work (1979), ed. Adelyn Dohme Breeskin. Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Rogers Fund, 1919. Another print of this etching is owned by Harvard University.

The Catalogue Raisonné and Amon Carter date this image circa 1880. The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates it 1881.