Mother Holding a Nude Baby Playing with a Toy Duck, (painting).

Mother Holding a Nude Baby Playing with a Toy Duck, (painting).

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.

Mother Holding a Nude Baby Playing with a Toy Duck, (painting).

Mother and Nude Child, (painting).

34 x 28 1/8 in. (cm. 86.4 x 71.5)

(Lower left:) Mary Cassatt signed

A woman is seated, facing left, holding a nude child in her right arm. The child's back is to the viewer, blocking the mother's head from view. The mother holds a toy duck on a string in her extended left hand and the child holds it with his extended right hand.

Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Figure -- Child -- Nude

Lent by Stillman, Chauncey, Amenia, New York

On loan to Williams, Langbourne M., New York

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 562.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, p. 204.

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