Impressionism
1893
The Child's Bath
Original title: The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt
Museum Provenance & Technical Data
Medium / Support:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
100.3 cm × 66.1 cm
Date of Creation:
1893
Scan Resolution:
3 219 × 4 912 px
Archive File Size:
2.3 MB
Permanent Collection:
Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Historical Narrative
A mother tenderly washes her young child's feet in a small copper basin, draped in a bold striped dressing gown.
Visual & Curatorial Analysis
"Combines French Impressionism with the compositional clarity and overhead bird's-eye perspective of Japanese woodblocks."
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