Original collotype print after the earlier Paul Gauguin lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Printed and published by Triton Press, Inc., New York in 1974. Sheet size: 17 x 14 inches; print size: 13 x 10 inches. Signed in stone lower right, on Brandywine Cover paper. Shown on a black background. Mint condition new old stock from our immaculate copy of "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Collotype is a printing process invented in the mid-19th century famous for producing extremely fine detail and rich tonal gradation, using photograph negatives to create printing plates. Widely used for art books, postcards, and fine art reproductions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today collotype is commercially uncommon, but still practiced by a few master printers. Collotype prints are admired by photographers, printmakers, and collectors for its unmatched subtlety. Mary Cassatt was one of the outstanding artists of her time. That she was a woman and a member of the social elite makes her accomplishment the more impressive. She worked throughout her life with an incredible zeal and pertinacity. Her models were predominantly the people she knew well: family and friends. One of her most beautiful works is the original lithograph, an enchanting impression of a young girl. Although American by birth, Mary Cassatt was one of those expatriates who were 'formed" abroad. A contemporary and friend of the French Impressionists, she is generally considered a distinguished member of that school.