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A Caress, (painting). Artist:  Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter. Title:  A Caress, (painting). Other Titles:  Une Caresse, (painting). Maternal Love, (painting). La Caresse de l'enfant, (painting). Baby's First Caress, (painting). Mother's Caress, (painting). First Caress, (painting). Jeune Mere, (painting). Child and Nurse, (painting). Dates:  1891. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Pastel on paper. Dimensions:  29 1/4 x 23 3/4 in. Inscription:  (Upper left:) Mary Cassatt signed Description:  A woman holds a naked child on her lap. The childs reaches his hand to the mother's face and the mother holds the child's foot in her hand. Subject:  Figure group -- Female & Child Object Type:  Painting Owner:  New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington Street, New Britain, Connecticut 06052 Accession Number: 1948.14 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Durand-Ruel, New York, New York 1895. Havermeyer, Louisine, Webb, J. Watson, Mrs., Macbeth Gallery, New York, New York References:  New Britain Museum of American Art, "Highlights of the collection: volume I," New Britain, CT: The Museum, 1999. New Britain Museum of American Art, "Catalogue of the collection," New Britain, CT: The Museum, 1975. "Mary Cassatt, pastels and color prints," Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 189. "Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Lithographs, Etchings," New Britain, CT: New Britain Museum of American Art, 1963?. Illustration:  Image on file. New Britain Museum of American Art, "Highlights of the collection: volume I," New Britain, CT: The Museum, 1999, pg. 49. New Britain Museum of American Art, "Catalogue of the collection," New Britain, CT: The Museum, 1975, pg. 49. Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, pg. 98. 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 07130197   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 07130197 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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