Mary Cassatt
A Kiss for Baby Anne (No. 2)
c. 1896-1897
Physical Qualities
Pastel on paper mounted to fabric, Sheet: 546 x 464 mm. (21 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Helen and Abram Eisenberg Collection
Object Number
1976.55.1
Drawing upon her upper-middle-class world, Mary Cassatt frequently depicted women and children caught in private, intimate moments. The individuals who posed for these scenes were family, friends, and servants, as well as professional models. In these works, Cassatt not only considered the formal and physical relationship between figures, but also created updated, secular versions of the Madonna and Child.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1976; Mrs. Abram Eisenberg, Baltimore; Mrs. H. B. Tuttle, New York; J. Boyer, Paris; Durand-Ruel, Paris; Collection of the artist.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum's Collection', May 14-Aug. 11, 1991.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawins and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
BMA, Cone Wing rotation, 5 February - 24 June 2007.
BMA, American Wing rotation, 26 May - 22 December 2015.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawins and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
BMA, Cone Wing rotation, 5 February - 24 June 2007.
BMA, American Wing rotation, 26 May - 22 December 2015.
Nancy Mowll Mathews, editor, Cassatt: A Retrospective, [New York?]: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1996, p. 255, plate 88.
Maria Costantino, Mary Cassatt, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1995, ill. p. 86. 'Family: Image and Reality', Maryland Humanities, (Winter 1993), ill. p. 13.
Sophia Craze, Mary Cassatt, New York: Crescent Books, 1990, p. 93 Nancy Mowll Mathews and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, p. 181 and 185, fig. no. 20-2.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 125, no. 267, ill. p. 125.
Inscribed: RECTO: TLC, pastel, 'Mary Cassatt'; VERSO: on support, (stamp), 'F. Dupré / 141 Faubourg St. Honoré / coin de la Rue de Berri, Paris.' First two lines of stamp repeated on center support of stretcher.
