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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.569
People
Mary Cassatt, American (Allegheny City, PA 1844 - 1926 Le Mesnil-Theribus, France)
Title
Mother Holding Up a Baby Who Pats her Cheek
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Mother and Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1897
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307933

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 28.6 x 23.2 cm (11 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Mary Cassatt
  • inscription: lower right, graphite, French, signed, in artist's hand: avec mes meilleurs / compliments / Mary Cassatt
  • stamp: l.l., black ink, stamped
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 25

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mary Cassatt, sold(?); to [Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421)], sold(?); to [Maurice Gobin, Paris]. [Scott & Fowles, New York] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1922; bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.569
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC, 1970), no. 832, reproduced
  • Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, Dutton Studio Books, New York (New York, NY, 1991), p. 126, reproduced pl. 22

Verification Level

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