Mother with Left Hand Holding Sara's Chin, (painting).

Mother with Left Hand Holding Sara's Chin, (painting).

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.

Mother with Left Hand Holding Sara's Chin, (painting).

Oil and pastel on canvas.

32 3/4 x 26 3/4 in. (cm. 83.2 x 67.9)

A woman, seen three-quarter-length, is seated with a child in her arms. She holds the child's chin with her left hand. The child looks off to the left, away from her mother. The woman wears a decollete evening gown and the girl wears a short-sleeved dress.

Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Portrait female -- Unidentified -- Child

Blond, Neville, Mrs., London, England

Formerly in the collection of Vollard, Ambroise, Paris, France

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 355.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 151.

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