Sleepy Thomas Sucking his Thumb, (painting).

Sleepy Thomas Sucking his Thumb, (painting).

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.

Sleepy Thomas Sucking his Thumb, (painting).

Pastel on paper.

21 x 17 1/2 in. (cm. 53.3 x 44.5)

(Lower left:) Mary Cassatt signed

A woman faces right, with her shoulder to viewer and looks down at the baby she holds in her arms. The baby looks at the viewer and sucks on his thumb.

Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Buehrli Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

Formerly in the collection of Durand-Ruel,

Waterloo, Lady, England

Marlborough Fine Art, London, England 1953.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 226.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 111.

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