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After the Bath
Mary Cassatt1901
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Mary Cassatt began using pastel in the 1870s and continued to experiment with the medium throughout her career. This drawing depicts a mother and child, one of the artist's preferred subjects. Cassatt typically used the technique seen here, in which she finished her sitters' faces with a high degree of detail but rendered the rest of the composition in a much looser and sketchier style.
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- Title: After the Bath
- Creator: Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
- Date Created: 1901
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH), Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.379
- Medium: pastel
- Fun Fact: Mary Cassatt once commented that pastel was "the most satisfactory medium for [portraying] children," since they could not sit still for long and the medium allowed for rapid sketching.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: America, late 18th-19th Century
- Credit Line: Gift of J. H. Wade
- Collection: DR - American 19th Century
- Accession Number: 1920.379
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