Mother Playing with Child. #4

Mother Playing with Child. Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844-1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise). Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 31 1/2... more

by Mary Cassatt

Title

Mother Playing with Child. #4

Artist

Mary Cassatt

Medium

Painting

Description

Mother Playing with Child. Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844-1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise). Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (64.8 x 80 cm). Date: ca. 1897.
Cassatt applied pastel in thick strokes and blended it into a very fine texture and sometimes into the paper itself, as did Edgar Degas. Her repetition of a particular subject--women with children--also may have been inspired by Degas, who reiterated themes, such as ballerinas and bathing women, in accordance with his credo: "It is essential to do the same subject over again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be chance, but even movement." Cassatt used this pastel as the basis for the last of her major prints, Picking Daisies in a Field (ca. 1896-97), which remained unfinished. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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June 21st, 2019