Gift of J. H. Wade · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
America, late 18th-19th Century · 1901
After the Bath
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- pastel
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.)
- Country / context
- United States
- Movement / tradition
- Impressionism · Source ↗
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
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.
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
