Mary Cassatt
Maternal Caress
1890
Physical Qualities
Drypoint with color aquatint and softground etching, Sheet: 434 x 293 mm. (17 1/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Plate: 366 x 265 mm. (14 7/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from the Estate of Mrs. Q. A. Shaw McKean
Object Number
1953.118
Wildenstein Gallery, New York City, NY, Oct. 1947 - Jan. 1948.
BMA, "Degas, Morisot and Cassatt," 1962, cat no. 139.
Victor Carlson (organized and circulated by the BMA), "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art." E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, November 3 - December 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, January 18 - February 17, 1974; The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2 - April 21, 1974, no. 6.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "The Space Within: Prints of Interiors, 1500 to the Present," 13 January - 26 March, 1978.
BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Whistler & Cassatt: Americans Abroad," June 11-Oct. 13, 2003.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
BMA, "Degas, Morisot and Cassatt," 1962, cat no. 139.
Victor Carlson (organized and circulated by the BMA), "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art." E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, November 3 - December 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, January 18 - February 17, 1974; The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2 - April 21, 1974, no. 6.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "The Space Within: Prints of Interiors, 1500 to the Present," 13 January - 26 March, 1978.
BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Whistler & Cassatt: Americans Abroad," June 11-Oct. 13, 2003.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
Clisby, Roger D. 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Catalogue [of an exhibition held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, November 3 - December 2, 1973, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 18 - February 17, 1974, and William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, April 2 - April 21, 1974]. [Sacramento, CA]: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1973, cat. no. 6, unpaged.
BMA Today: May / June 2003, cover, ill.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Mary Cassatt"
Markings: CM: Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604)
