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    Mother about to Wash Her Sleepy Child, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.
    Title: 
    Mother about to Wash Her Sleepy Child, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Baby's Toilet, (painting).
    Bath, (painting).
    La toilette de l'enfant, (painting).
    Child's Bath, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1880.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    39 7/16 x 25 7/8 in. (100.3 x 65.8 cm)
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) Mary Cassatt/1880 signed
    Description: 
    A mother sits in a chair with her child in her lap. Her proper right hand is in a bowl at her side. She looks at the child, who is looking at her with droopy eyes and one arm behind his head.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child
    Recreation -- Leisure -- Bathing
    Architecture interior -- Domestic
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036 Accession Number: M.62.8.14
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Pope, Alfred Atmore, Mr. & Mrs.,
    Riddle, John W., Mrs.,
    M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York
    Bequest of Bixby, Fred Hathaway, Mrs., Long Beach, California
    References: 
    Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 103.
    "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 28.
    Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick, "American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection," Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pg. 180-181.
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
    Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 90.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirshler and H. Barbara Weinberg, "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900," London : National Gallery, 2006, no. 103.
    "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pg. 253.
    Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick, "American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection," Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991, pg. 46.
    Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, pg. 60.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 02960025
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