Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 29.100.47
Date:
Ca. 1899
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 646.
"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 87.
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 338.
Image on file.
"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pg. 309.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 647.
(Lower left:) Mary Cassatt signed
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Summary:
A mother is seated beside her nude young child, her face pressed close to her child's as she embraces him. The child's left arm rests around the mother's neck, and she reaches up to hold his hand against her chest. The mother wears a blue dressing gown. Behind the figures there is a wooden dresser with an oval mirror.
