Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 29.100.48
Date:
1900
Notes:
"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 88.
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 415.
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. 648.
Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles, "American Impressionists," New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1991, pg. 19.
Image on file.
"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pg. 311.
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. 649.
Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles, "American Impressionists," New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1991, pg. 19.
(Lower right:) Mary Cassatt signed
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Summary:
The mother and child are represented by Reine Lefebvre, wearing a green dress with a black and white wrapper, and the young Margot Lux, wearing a white dress. The mother is seated, her attention directed to a piece of sewing that she holds in her hands. The daughter standing beside her, leans against her mother's knees, resting her chin in her hand, and staring at the viewer. Behind the figures there is a window with a view of a green lawn. A glass vase filled with orange flowers rests on a chest of drawers in front of the window.
