After the Bath
1901
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Drawings
After the Bath, 1901. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). Pastel; sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.379 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. 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Cassatt, Mary
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pastel
- Medium
- pastel
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1920.379
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Art: The International Language, Miss Mary Cassatt, Fraternite: Artistic Relations Between France and America, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>28th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture. </em>Art Institute of Chicago (1915-16)., <em>2nd Annual Exhibition of American and European Art</em>. Dallas Art Association (1921).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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