Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Barefooted Child
Mary CassattLinkedCulture matchlcp-0f1d026a36de
- Date
- c. 1896–1897
- Medium
- Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color from two plates
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 7410
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Well known for oils and pastels, Mary Cassatt had a brief but fruitful acquaintance with aquatint in the 1890s. Originally she took up the medium to see if she could approximate the feel of Japanese woodblock prints she had seen exhibited in Paris. The MIA's impression of The Barefooted Child, depicting a game of patty-cake, is the only known example of the fourth state, in which Cassatt experimented with a gray and yellow color scheme. The final state ended up being more colorful. United States, Americas
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- Credit line
- The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
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