Mother's kiss / Mary Cassatt – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Mother's kiss / Mary Cassatt
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Mary Cassatt's *Mother's Kiss* is a color print, made with drypoint and aquatint, that shows a mother tenderly kissing her child, a theme Cassatt returned to throughout her career. The impression is signed in pencil by the artist and notes that it was printed by her and M. Leroy, a Parisian printer she worked with on this series. Cassatt, an American who spent most of her working life in France, was closely associated with the Impressionists, and in the early 1890s she turned to printmaking to explore color and line in new ways. Her work from this period shows the influence of Japanese woodblock prints, particularly in its flat areas of color and its close, intimate framing.
| Created / published | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : drypoint and aquqtint, col. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil: Mary Cassatt, with note: Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy. B. 149, 4th state. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. color and b&w images do not match. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,043 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176666 |
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