Art Institute of Chicago
Maternal Caress
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)LinkedCulture matchlcp-1a8df4849ac8
- Date
- 1890–91
- Medium
- Color aquatint and drypoint, with softground, on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 13531
Mary Cassatt began a series of ten color prints in 1890 that were intended for an 1891 exhibition at the influential Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. These prints exemplify the influence of Japanese color woodblock printmaking on her choice of composition, subject matter, and technique. In Maternal Caress , Cassatt portrayed a woman embracing her infant child. She rendered the figures and furniture as simplified, flattened shapes to allow the decorative elements—such as the floral patterns on the chair and wallpaper—and the limited color palette to predominate and set the warm mood of the scene.
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- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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