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After the Bath

1901
(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
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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.

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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.
A colorful pastel drawing of a baby, a woman, and a young child, all with light skin tones. The woman is holding the baby and gazing at them. On our right is the young child, who is holding the woman's shoulder and the baby's wrist.

After the Bath

1901

Mary Cassatt

(American, 1844–1926)
America, late 18th-19th Century

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