Mother's Kiss
1890-1891
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Artwork overview
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Medium
color drypoint and aquatint on Japan paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 34.93 × 22.86 cm (13 3/4 × 9 in.)
sheet: 37.2 x 27.6 cm (14 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.2759
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 11, iv/v
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1950
Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950.
1951
Mary Cassatt and her Parisian friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 42.
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.
1965
An Exhibition of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965.
1967
Exhibition of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1967.
1968
An Exhibition of Christmas Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968.
1970
Mary Cassatt, 1844 - 1926, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.
1973
Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 1973 - 1974.
Whistler, Cassatt and Hassam: three American printmakers, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1973.
1989
Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1989-1990, no. 11-IV, repro.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 149, iii/iv.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 11, iv/v.
Inscriptions
recto: at lower left in graphite in later hand: E; verso: none
Markings
none
Wikidata ID
Q64960367