Denise Holding her Child
Mary Cassatt American
Not on view
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.
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