Denise Holding her Child
As a printmaker, Cassatt often used drypoint for linear images, a technique that uses an etching needle to scratch images into a copper printing plate. She found this technique to encourage the visual minimalism that she admired in Japanese woodblock prints. Throughout her career, the artist focused on compositions centered on women and children, here portraying a model that also appears in a painting in the Museum's collection titled "Denise at Her Dressing Table" (2005.129), made around the same date as the print.
Artwork Details
- Title: Denise Holding her Child
- Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)
- Date: 1905
- Medium: Drypoint with plate tone; only state
- Dimensions: Plate: 8 1/8 × 9 3/4 in. (20.7 × 24.8 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 8 15/16 in. (31.2 × 22.7 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Bequest of Sylvia Brody, 2021
- Object Number: 2023.128.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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