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Maternal Caress

Mary Cassatt

Maternal Caress

1890

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Mary Cassatt

Maternal Caress

1890

Physical Qualities Drypoint with color aquatint and softground etching, Sheet: 434 x 293 mm. (17 1/16 x 11 9/16 in.) Plate: 366 x 265 mm. (14 7/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift from the Estate of Mrs. Q. A. Shaw McKean
Object Number 1953.118
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Clisby, Roger D. 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Catalogue [of an exhibition held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, November 3 - December 2, 1973, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 18 - February 17, 1974, and William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, April 2 - April 21, 1974]. [Sacramento, CA]: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1973, cat. no. 6, unpaged.
BMA Today: May / June 2003, cover, ill.

Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Mary Cassatt"

Markings: CM: Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604)

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Mary Cassatt

1843–1925

American, 1844-1926
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