Peasant Mother and Child

c. 1894

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows two figures, a woman and a young child, visible from the waist up. The woman is sitting and the child is on her lap, leaning towards her. The woman's head is turned to the side with her hair pulled back in a bun. She wears a high-necked dress with puffed sleeves. The child has short, straight hair and round cheeks, wearing a long-sleeved garment resembling a nightgown. The child's face is tilted towards the woman, with a hand reaching out to touch her. There are no visible accessories or objects. The background is a simple, pale backdrop.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color drypoint and aquatint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.69 × 24.45 cm (11 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 43.5 x 30.8 cm (17 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2747

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 17, viii/x

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1945

  • Color Prints and Color Printing: Original Works by Old and Modern Masters, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1945.

1963

  • Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt. From the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963.

1964

  • Prints by Mary Cassatt, organized by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition Service and circulated to 10 venues (Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Norton Gallery & School of Art, Palm Beach, FL; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, OH; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; and A.D. White Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), 1964-1965.

1989

  • Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamston, MA, 1989-1990, no. 17-VIII, repro.

Bibliography

1979

  • Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 159, iii/v.

1989

  • Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 17, viii/x.

Wikidata ID

Q64960343

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