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

Artwork overview
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Medium
color drypoint, aquatint, and softground etching
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 36.83 × 26.83 cm (14 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)
sheet: 42.7 x 31.2 cm (16 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.2761
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 12, vi/vi
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1950
Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.
1951
Mary Cassatt and her Parisian friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 43.
1960
Graphic Masterpieces of Five Hundred Years from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1960.
1967
Mother and Child, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, 1967, no. 33.
1973
Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, 1973-1974, no. 24.
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. 12-IV, repro.
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.
1996
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996, p. 170.
Wikidata ID
Q64960371