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After the Bath

1901

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844-1926)

America, late 18th-19th Century

Pastel

Sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.)

Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.379

Catalogue raisonné: Breeskin 384

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Mary Cassatt once commented that pastel was "the most satisfactory medium for [portraying] children," since they could not sit still for long and the medium allowed for rapid sketching.

Description

Mary Cassatt began using pastel in the 1870s and continued to experiment with the medium throughout her career. This drawing depicts a mother and child, one of the artist's preferred subjects. Cassatt typically used the technique seen here, in which she finished her sitters' faces with a high degree of detail but rendered the rest of the composition in a much looser and sketchier style.

Provenance

1901

(Durand-Ruel, Paris, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH)

1901-1920

Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

1920-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

W. M. M. "La Sortie Du Bain by Mary Cassatt." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 10 (1920): 147-49. Mentioned: pp. 147-49; Reproduced: p. 146 www.jstor.org

"Art Awakening Grows in Unexpected Ways." Cleveland Commercial (May 5, 1922). Mentioned: n.p.

An Appreciation of Mary Cassatt's "La Sortie du Bain" in the Wade Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1922. Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.

Whiting, Frederic Allen. "The Cleveland Museum of Art: Twelve Illustrations." Art and Archaeology 16, no. 4-5 (October-November 1923): 187-94. Reproduced: p. 192

Arts and Decoration 20, no. 4 (February 1924). Reproduced: cover illustration

"Famous Pastel is Owned by Museum." Cleveland Times (February 1, 1925). Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.

W. M. M., T. S., R. H., and F. A. W. "In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 4 (1926): 63-91. Mentioned: p. 65; Reproduced: p. 77 www.jstor.org

Kane, Katherine Regan. "Mother and Child: Favorite Theme in the Art of Every Country." American Home 17, no. 1 (December 1936): 15-17, 68, 81-84. Mentioned: p. 84; Reproduced: p. 15

Kelly, Grace V. "In Museum's Show of U.S. Art." Cleveland Plain Dealer (July 2, 1937). Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1937. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 15, no. 26

Jewell, Edward Alden and Aimée Crane. French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944. Reproduced: p. 131

Breuning, Margaret. Mary Cassatt. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944. Reproduced: p. 23

Hartlaub, Gustav Friedrich. Impressionists in France. Milan: Uffici Press, 1950. Reproduced: p. 40

Sweet, Frederick A. Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 1954. Mentioned and reproduced p. 34, no. 26

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 546 archive.org

Sweet, Frederick A. Miss Mary Cassatt, Impressionist from Pennsylvania. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Mentioned: p. 140; Reproduced: pl. VIII

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 188 archive.org

Neilson, Winthrop and Frances Fullerton Neilson. Seven Women: Great Painters. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co, 1968. Mentioned: p. 167

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 188 archive.org

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1970. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 384

Bullard, E. John. Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1972. Mentioned: p. 68; Reproduced: p. 69, pl. 24

Cullinan, Helen. "Brotherly Love for Sisters' Work." Cleveland Plain Dealer (June 9, 1974). Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.

Henkes, Robert. Eight American Women Painters. New York: Gordon Press, 1977. Reproduced: fig. 10

Yaegashi, Haruki and Takeshi Kashiwat. Kasatto/Cassatt. Tōkyō: Senshukai, 1978. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 26

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 234 archive.org

Love, Richard H. Cassatt: The Independent. Chicago: Milton H. Kreines, 1980. Mentioned: p. 122; Reproduced: ill. 38

Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Mentioned: p. 124-5; Reproduced: p. 127

Craze, Sophia. Mary Cassatt. New York: Crescent Books, 1990. Reproduced: pp. 102-3

Costantino, Maria. Mary Cassatt. New York: Brompton, 1995. Reproduced: p. 104

Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996. Reproduced: pp. 276-77, pl. 93

Pollock, Griselda. Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998. Reproduced: p. 23

Nochlin, Linda. Representing Women. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Mentioned: p. 265; Reproduced: fig. 114

DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: p. 1; Reproduced: p. 2

Pollock, Griselda. Mary Cassatt. London: Chaucer, 2005. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 232, no. 79

Robinson, William H. Monet to Dalí: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.

Lemonedes, Heather. "The Feminine Ideal." Cleveland Art (September/October 2012): 4-6. Reproduced: p. 5

Exhibition history

28th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture. Art Institute of Chicago (1915-16).

2nd Annual Exhibition of American and European Art. Dallas Art Association (1921).

Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (January 14-February 25, 1954); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (March 25-May 23, 1954).

Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

Miss Mary Cassatt. The Art Institute of Chicago (organizer) (July 1-September 5, 1966).

Fraternite: Artistic Relations Between France and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 21-October 18, 1987).

Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).

Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).

Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).

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