Agatha and Her Child, (painting).

Agatha and Her Child, (painting).

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.

Agatha and Her Child, (painting).

Mother and Child, (painting).

Sollicitude maternelle, (painting).

Pastel on paper mounted on canvas.

26 x 21 in. (66.0 x 53.3 cm).

(Lower left, in light pastel:) Mary Cassatt signed

A woman is seated facing right with a child held tightly with both her arms.

Portrait group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Portrait female -- Unidentified -- Agatha

Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio 44502 Accession Number: 947-W-102

Formerly in the collection of Durand-Ruel, Paris, France 1891.

Durand-Ruel, New York, New York 1895.

Arnhold, E., 1906.

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York 1947.

"Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Art Institute, 1951.

Butler Institute of American Art, "Sixty years of collecting American art: an index to the permanent collection," Youngstown, OH: The Institute, 1979.

"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. 199.

Exh. Catalog, "250 Years of Art in Pennsylvania," Westmoreland. County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pa., 1959.

Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with The Butler Institute of American Art, 1994, pg. 157.

Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "The Butler Institute of American Art Index of the Permanent Collection," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1997, pg. 36.

"Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Butler Institute of American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1979, pg. 31.

Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, pg. 102.

"Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Art Institute, 1951, p. 23.

Chew, "250 Years of Art in Pennsylvania", 1959, Pl.96

Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with The Butler Institute of American Art, 1994, pg. 157.

Sweetkind, Irene S., ed., "The Butler Institute of American Art Index of the Permanent Collection," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1997, pg. 36.

"Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Butler Institute of American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1979, pg. 31.

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