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Mary Cassatt
American (active in France), 1844–1926
Woman with Baby
c. 1902
The child’s embrace and the woman’s affectionate expression suggest the tender relationship between mother and daughter, though the figures were, in fact, unrelated. The woman was among Cassatt’s favorite models, her cook Reine LeFebvre. The pastels are subtly blended to represent the varying textures of flesh and hair, and the striking orange, blue, and green colors of the voluminous kimono are echoed in the background.
Medium
pastel on gray paper
Dimensions
28 3/8 x 20 7/8 in. (72.1 x 53 cm)
Frame: 37 3/8 x 30 x 3 13/16 in. (94.9 x 76.2 x 9.7 cm)
Object Number
1968.301
Acquisition
Gift of the Executors of Governor Lehman's Estate and the Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation, 1968
Status
Off View
Image Caption
Mary Cassatt, Woman with Baby, c. 1902, pastel on gray paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Executors of Governor Lehmans Estate and the Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation, 1968.301
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Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.. Leaders of American Impressionism: Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, J. H. Twachtman, and J. Aldien Weir.. 1937..
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey. Mary Cassatt. November 19-December 27, 1939.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.. Mary Cassatt: A Comprehensive Exhibition of Her Work. Nov. 28, 1941-Jan. 11, 1942.. 1941..
Hamilton, George Heard. On the Occasion of the Opening of the Collection of Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1976.
Murphy, Alexandra R., et al. Paintings from the Collection of Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985.
Edith Valerio.. Mary Cassatt.. Paris: Les Editions G. Grès.. 1930..
Basler, Adolph and Charles Kunstler. Modern French Painting: The Post-Impressionists from Monet to Bonnard. New York: W. F. Payson. 1931.
Joseph T. Butler.. "America.". 192.. Connoisseur.. Aug. 1976..
Jones, Karen M. "Museum Accessions." Magazine Antiques 110 (December 1976).
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Brooks, John H. Highlights: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981.
Mukherjee, Sushil. "Treasure of the Clark Museum." Berkshire Magazine (Winter 1982).
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Gilbert, Rita, and WIlliam McCarter. Living with Art. 2nd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.
Conrads, Margaret C. American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996.
Anonymous. "Nineteenth-Century Painting and Sculpture." The Magazine Antiques 152 (October 1997): 522–31.
Breeskin, Adelyn D. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970.
Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1996.
Barter, Judith A., et al. Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998.
Provenance
To (Durand-Ruel, Paris); to M. Manaud, Paris; to (Durand-Ruel, Paris, November 22, 1928); to (Durand-Ruel, New York, December 7, 1928); to Albert E. McVitty, Princeton, New Jersey, March 5, 1929; to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, February 1954); to (Sidney Schoenberg, St. Louis, February 1954); to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); to Herbert H. Lehman, October 14, 1959; to Herbert H. Lehman Estate; Gift of the Executors of Governor Lehman's Estate and the Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1968.
