1943.569: Mother Holding Up a Baby Who Pats her Cheek

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

Permissions

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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

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