Edgar Degas (1834-1917 )At the Louvre, Museum of Antiquities: the Etruscan Gallery (Mary Cassatt at the Louvre). About 1879-1880 (according to Reed and Shapiro; 1876 according to Delteil). Etching, drypoint and aquatint. 230 x 265. Delteil 30 (iv/vi); Reed-Shapiro 51 (v/ix). A very fine proof on cream watermarked "arches" laid paper, of the 5th state (of 9) according to Reed and Shapiro, before the traces of burnishing on the back of the standing woman's jacket, before the vertical lines in the left part of the book. Light traces of marginal oxidation. Minimal discharge of the studio stamp (from the verso of another print) under the left board cut. All margins untrimmed [303 x 430]. On verso, red studio stamp (Lugt 657). "It is generally accepted that the standing figure is Mary Cassatt and the seated figure holding a guidebook may be her sister, Lydia." (Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro, eds., Edgar Degas, The Painter as Printmaker (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984), p. 170.