Room 1: The early years and portraiture

Contains: 'Self-portrait (Autoportrait)' winter 1857 second state of five edition of three etching 23 x 14.4 cm (plate) 26.3 x 17.2 cm (sheet) Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris res Dc 327dh fol, boîte 2, Rc A 27729 Reed and Shapiro 8 / Adhémar 13 'Copy after Delacroix’s ‘Entry of the crusaders into Constantinople’ (Copie d'après Delacroix, La prise de Constantinople)' c 1860 oil on cardboard 35 x 38 cm Kunsthaus Zürich Gift of René Wehrli, 2005 Bram / Reff 35 © 2008 Kunsthaus Zürich. All rights reserved 'Mary Cassatt in the Louvre looking at paintings' 1879–80 second state of 20 edition of one etching, aquatint, drypoint and electric crayon 30.5 x 12.6 cm (plate), 41x 24 cm (sheet) Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris res Dc 327dh fol, boîte 6 Reed and Shapiro 52 / Adhémar 54 'Roman beggar woman (Mendiante romaine)' 1857 oil on canvas 100.3 x 75.2 cm Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1960P44 Lemoisne 28 'A cotton office in New Orleans (Un bureau de coton à la Nouvelle-Orléans)' 1873 oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau 878.1.2 Lemoisne 320