Peasant Mother and Child

c. 1894

Mary Cassatt

Associated Names
Mary Cassatt

Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

The image shows a woman and a child, with both figures depicted from the waist up. The woman is seated, facing slightly to the left with her head turned towards the child. Her facial features are not fully visible from this angle, but her hair is reddish-brown, styled neatly in a bun at the back of her head. She is wearing a dark green dress with long sleeves. The child stands close to the woman, facing forward, and has short, light brown or reddish hair with straight bangs. The child is wearing a simple, light brown outfit that covers the arms and body. The woman gently holds the child's arm, creating a sense of connection between them. The background is a muted blue-gray.

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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.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2750

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1945

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

1958

  • Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt, Ogunquit Museum, ME, 1958.

1963

  • Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 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.

1967

  • Mother and Child, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, 1967, no. 36.

Bibliography

1979

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

1989

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

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: MC

Wikidata ID

Q64960349

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