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    		• Cassatt, Mary,
     
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    Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror), (painting).
    Artist: 
    Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926, painter.
    Title: 
    Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror), (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Florentine Madonna, (painting).
    Oval Mirror, (painting).
    Mere et Enfant, (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1899.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    32 1/8 x 25 7/8 in. (81.6 x 65.7 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) Mary Cassatt signed
    Description: 
    A mother is seated beside her nude young child, her face pressed close to her child's as she embraces him. The child's left arm rests around the mother's neck, and she reaches up to hold his hand against her chest. The mother wears a blue dressing gown. Behind the figures there is a wooden dresser with an oval mirror.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Family -- Mother & Child
    Architecture interior -- Domestic -- Bedroom
    Object -- Furniture -- Mirror
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 29.100.47
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Durand-Ruel, Paris, France April 1899.
    Durand-Ruel, New York, New York July 1899.
    Havemeyer, Henry O., Mr. & Mrs., New York, New York July 1899-1907.
    Havemeyer, Henry O., Mrs., New York, New York until 1929.
    References: 
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
    Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 646.
    "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 87.
    Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 338.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pg. 309.
    Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 647.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 80170338
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