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Preparatory Sketch for "Mother and Child in a Boat" (No. 2), (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Cassatt, Mary 1844-1926  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
High Museum of Art 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E Atlanta Georgia 30309 Accession Number: 76.22
Date:
Ca. 1906-1908
Notes:
"American Paintings at the High Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1994, no. 44.
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 519.
Summary:
Study of the heads of a mother and child. The woman's chin touches the girl's hair. The girl's head, which is tilted left, is more finished than the woman's which is only in outline.
Topic:
Figure group--Family--Mother & Child  Search this
Study  Search this
Control number:
IAP 80170519
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_181075