Woman Bathing, 1890–91
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color, state v/v
Artist Biography
Technical Glossary
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Drypoint and aquatint, printed in color, state v/v
Plate: 14 5/16 x 10 9/16 in. (36.4 x 26.8 cm); sheet: 17 x 11 3/4 in. (43.2 x 29.8 cm)
Gift of Paul J. Sachs, 1916 (16.2.2)
The American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt spent her professional life in Paris, where she was a member of the Impressionist group. Woman Bathing belongs to a group of ten color prints that Cassatt showed at her first independent exhibition (at the Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris) in 1891. The abstract, linear quality of the nude's back drew the attention of Cassatt's colleague and sometime collaborator, Edgar Degas (1834–1917), who exclaimed, "I do not admit that a woman can draw like that."
