Mother's Kiss, 1890-1891

Not on View

Medium

color drypoint and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34.6 x 22.7 cm (13 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

sheet: 43.3 x 30.1 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 11, v/v

Accession Number

1963.10.254

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at lower right in graphite: Edition de 25 épreuves Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy / Mary Cassatt; at lower left in graphite in later hand: E.958 set of 10 - R3; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: B-22-322

Marks and Labels

recto: Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604); verso: National Gallery of Art (Lugt 1932d)

Exhibition History

1936: Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, 1936, no. 35.

1965: Graphic Arts from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965.

1966: Master Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966-1967.

1967: Miss Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Graphic Arts, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1967.

1970: Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.

1998: Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999, no. 62, as The Kiss (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 149, iv/iv.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 11, v/v.

1998: Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman. Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999: no. 62.