Mother and Child (Cassatt)

Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)
Artist Mary Cassatt Edit this on Wikidata
Year c. 1898
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81.6 cm (32.1 in) × 65.7 cm (25.9 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession No. 29.100.47 Edit this on Wikidata
Identifiers The Met object ID: 10401

Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror) is a painting by Mary Cassatt. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Early history and creation

It was painted about 1898.[2]

Later history and display

The Havemeyers, purchased the painting,[3] from dealer Duand-Ruel[2] in 1899.[4]

Description and interpretation

The work depicts a mother an child drawing on the iconography of "Mary and child" religious imagery.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  2. 1 2 Spassky, Natalie (1965). American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870994395.
  3. ↑ "Mary Cassatt | Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror) | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  4. ↑ Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (1993). Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870996641.
  5. ↑ "Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror) | Mary Cassatt | 29.100.47 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  6. ↑ Weinberg, Helene Barbara (2009). American Impressionism & Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781876509996.
  • Galitz, Kathryn Calley (2016-09-20). The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780847846597.
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