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Mary Cassatt
(22nd May, 1844 - 14th Jun, 1926)
Mère et enfant : la femme tient sur ses genoux son enfant qui suce son pouce
1889
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Paris, musée d'Orsay, conservé au musée du Louvre
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Keywords:
maternity ward
house (interior)
sitting
toilet jug
figure study
portrait of a woman
chair
portrait of a child
tenderness
mother
boy
son
woman
jeunesse
childhood
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About the artwork
Title:
Mère et enfant : la femme tient sur ses genoux son enfant qui suce son pouce
Periods:
19th century
période contemporaine (Amérique)
XIXth century
Techniques:
pastel
beige paper
Dimensions:
650 x 500
Inventory number:
RF31843-recto
Detail:
Vers 1889
About the author(s)
Author:
Mary Cassatt
Also known as:
Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Mary Stevenson
Born:
22nd May, 1844
Dead:
14th Jun, 1926
Country:
États-Unis
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Mary Stevenson Cassatt
(; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism…
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