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Mary Cassatt, Modeste Leroy, and others

Maternal Caress

1890

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Maternal Caress

1890

Physical Qualities Drypoint, aquatint, and softground etching, Sheet: 433 x 301 mm. (17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.) Plate: 368 x 268 mm. (14 1/2 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.14788
Printed in color from three plates.
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
A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art

Innovative Impressions: Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro as Painter-Printmaker

Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism

Mary Cassatt - A Comprehensive Exhibition
Lees, Sarah and Richard R. Brettell. Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro. Tulsa, OK: Philbrook Museum of Art, 2018.
Breeskin, Adelyn D. The graphic work of Mary Cassatt; a catalogue raisonné 1st ed. (New York: H. Bittner and Co., 1948).

Laran, Jean, et al. Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1930-ongoing): vol. 4, pp. 148-151.

Mathews, Nancy Mowll, Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: the color prints (New York: H. N. Abrams; Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1989) Exhibition Catalog: Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College.

Rosen, Marc (compiler), Susan Pinsky (compiler), Warren Adelson, et al. Mary Cassatt: prints and drawings from the artist's studio (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

Inscribed: Signed, inscribed, and dedicated in pencil: lower left "[illegible - possibly Enfant nue]"; lower right "To Mr. Lucas with my best compliments / Mary Cassatt / (proof printed by the artist and Leroy)"

Markings: Artist's stamp: MC monogram (Lugt 604) Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

Mary Cassatt

1843–1925

American, 1844-1926
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Printer

Modeste Leroy

2000–2000

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Dedicated to

George A. Lucas

1823–1908

American, 1824-1909
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