The Bath
Mary Cassatt American
Not on view
An associate of the Impressionists who worked in Paris, Cassatt depicted mothers and children without sentimentality. Here, she lends a timeless quality to a child’s bath by accentuating flat, patterned aspects of the composition. Cassatt was an experimental printmaker, monitoring her developing designs by printing intermediary states in black. These stand alone as independent works of art and compare meaningfully to later color impressions taken from the same plate. This is the only known impression of the fifth state of The Bath, with reinforced drypoint lines defining folds of the dress; incomplete burnishing produced the atmospheric gray tone.
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