Mary Cassatt
Baby’s Back
1889
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Mary Cassatt
Baby’s Back
1889
Physical Qualities
Drypoint, Sheet: 310 x 235 mm. (12 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Plate: 231 x 162 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with Funds from the State of Maryland. Funds from Laurence and Stella Bendann, and Contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.510
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad
A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art
Mary Cassatt - A Comprehensive Exhibition
"Mary Cassatt: Graphic Work," S.I.T.E.S., Washington, DC, 1981, Cat. 20 (illustrated)
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work, 2d ed., (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979), p. 57, #128.
Marc Rosen and Susan Pinsky, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard (New York: Adelson Galleries, 2008), p. 70, #46.
Marc Rosen and Susan Pinsky, Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard (New York: Adelson Galleries, 2008), p. 70, #46.
Inscribed: Signed and titled in pencil: lower right "Mary Cassatt / Mother & Child"
Markings: Artist's stamp: MC monogram (Lugt 604) Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)
