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Article start, to include Cassatt's Fourth Impressionist Exhibition show. I'm not sure I'll be able to find details of all the paintings involved. Contributions welcome or drop me a note on my Talk page.

Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (Dans la Loge) is an oil painting by the American painter, printmaker, pastelist, and connoisseur Mary Cassatt.

The painting
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Studies and etching


The drawing was reproduced in the 9 August 1879 edition of the  La Vie Moderne, a literary and artistic review whose illustrators included Pierre-Auguste Renoir, likewise a painter of theatre scenes.

The example on the right below is in an intermediate state, lacking spectators and decoration on the balcony. It was amongst the 700 or so Cassatt prints in various stages of production found in Degas' studio at his death, and fetched £37,250 at a Christie's, London, sale in September 2011.

Fourth Impressionist Exhibition 1879

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The identity of all the twelve works (one of them hors catalogue) shown by Cassat is not known with certainty. The following list is sourced from Griselda Pollock unless otherwise indicated. The American art historian George Shackelford includes Cassatt's Portait of a Little Girl in the show, a painting that had been rejected by the American section of the 1878 Exposition Universelle. Many of Cassatt's paintings are known by a variety of titles (this is especially so for the theater paintings). Generally the museum title has been chosen in the list below.

The column headed "BrCR" gives the catalogue number in Adelyn Breeskin's catalogue raisonné, and these are linked to their entries in the Smithsonian SIRIS database.

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