Maternal Caress
1890-1891
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Artwork overview
-
Medium
color drypoint, aquatint, and softground etching on wove paper
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
plate: 36.4 x 26.4 cm (14 5/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
sheet: 42.5 x 31.4 cm (16 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1942.6.33
-
Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 12, vi/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Elisabeth Achelis (1880-1973), New York (Lugt 824b)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 45.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.
2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2009, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 150, iii/iii.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 12, vi/vi.
1999
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History, vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall, 1999, p. 1019, fig. 27.59.
2009
Munroe, Alexandra. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989. Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2009, pl. 15.
Inscriptions
recto: below image at right in graphite: Mary Cassatt; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: A81689; at lower right in graphite in later hand: FVX / [indecipherable] 8067 / [indecipherable] c o u
Markings
recto: none; verso: Elisabeth Achelis (Lugt 824b) and National Gallery of Art
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64960323