Mathilde Holding a Baby Who Reaches Out to Right, (painting).

Mathilde Holding a Baby Who Reaches Out to Right, (painting).

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.

Mathilde Holding a Baby Who Reaches Out to Right, (painting).

Pastel on paper.

28 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (cm. 73.0 x 59.7)

(Lower right:) Mary Cassatt signed

Seated on a wicker bench, a woman holds a baby. The baby reaches his right hand out to the right. The woman holds the baby's left arm with her hand.

Figure group -- Female & Child

Johnson, R. Stanley & Ursula, Chicago, Illinois

Formerly in the collection of Paulin, Dr., 1890.

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France Sale (May 22, 1919), no. 38.

Durand-Ruel, Paris, France

Durand-Ruel, New York, New York 1920.

Private collection, Switzerland

International Galleries, Chicago, Illinois 1964.

"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 272.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 187.

"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pg. 272.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 98.

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