"Mother and Child" by Mary Cassatt

"Mother and Child" by Mary Cassatt

"Female parent and Child" by Mary Cassatt depict a mother washing a child after getting upwardly from his nap. The mother holds the kid firmly and protectively while washing the child'south anxiety.

The right arm of the child embraces the mother's neck and shoulder, while the other hand is used to rest its weight on the bed. The painting reflects the dignity of maternity.

Cassatt'southward artistic portrayal of women consistently reflected pride in the women'southward role and the suggestion of a broader, more than meaningful inner life.

Mary Cassatt

Cassatt was heavily influenced by her fellow Impressionist peers, especially Edgar Degas.

In 1890, she was struck by the prints of the Japanese woodcuts and was drawn to the simplicity and clarity of the Japanese design, and the skillful use of blocks of color. Japanese prints and Degas inspired the perspective of this painting.

Mary Cassatt was a painter and printmaker, she was born in Pennsylvania, but she lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited among the Impressionists.

Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

Mary Cassatt Insights

  • Cassatt enjoyed the moving ridge of feminism that occurred in the 1840s, allowing her to access educational institutions at newly coed colleges and universities.
  • Cassatt was an outspoken advocate for women's equality, campaigning for equal scholarships in the 1860s, and the correct to vote in the 1910s.
  • A trip to Egypt in 1910, then impressed Cassatt with the beauty of its ancient fine art, that she had a crisis of creativity.
  • While in France,  Cassatt and Degas had an extended flow of collaboration, and she too had contact with Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro.

Mother and Child (Infant Getting Upwardly from His Nap)

  • Title:               Female parent and Child (Baby Getting Upward from His Nap)
  • Creative person:              Mary Cassatt
  • Year:               1899
  • Medium:         Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions:   36 1/two x 29 in. (92.seven 10 73.7 cm)
  • Museum:        Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET

Mary Cassatt

  • Proper noun:             Mary Stevenson Cassatt
  • Born:               1844 – Allegheny Metropolis, Pennsylvania, Usa
  • Died:               1926 (anile 82) – Château de Beaufresne, about Paris, French republic
  • Nationality:     American
  • Movement:     Impressionism
  • Notable Works
    • The Child'due south Bath
    • Female parent and Child
    • The Boating Party
    • Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
    • Offering the Panel to the Bullfighter
    • Lady at the Tea Table

MARY CASSATT

MET European Paintings Collection

  • "Pygmalion and Galatea" by Jean-Léon
  • "Saint Jerome as Scholar" by El Greco
  • "Portrait of Juan de Pareja" by Diego Velázquez
  • "Camille Monet on a Garden Bench" by Claude Monet
  • "View of Toledo" by El Greco
  •  "The Musicians" past Caravaggio
  • "The Death of Socrates" past Jacques-Louis David
  •  "The Harvesters" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • "Immature Woman Drawing" by Marie-Denise Villers
  • "The Chiliad Culvert, Venice" by J. Chiliad. W. Turner
  • "The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog)" by Claude Monet
  • "Madame Cézanne in a Crimson Dress" by Paul Cézanne
  • "The Fortune Teller" by Georges de La Tour
  • "The Apologue of Organized religion" by Johannes Vermeer
  • "Garden at Sainte-Adresse" by Claude Monet
  • "Wheat Field with Cypresses" by Vincent van Gogh
  • "The Repast of the Lion" past Henri Rousseau
  • "The Equus caballus Fair" past Rosa Bonheur
  • "Two Men Contemplating the Moon" by Caspar David Friedrich
  • "Boy with a Greyhound" by Paolo Veronese
  • "A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts" by Jean Béraud
  • "Sunday at the Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Paris" by Jean Béraud
  • "The Boulevard Montmartre on a Wintertime Forenoon" by Camille Pissarro
  • "The Sorrow of Telemachus" by Angelica Kauffman

Mary Cassatt

MET Modern and Contemporary Art Collection

  • "Reclining Nude" by Amedeo Modigliani
  • "Improvisation 27 (Garden of Dearest Two)" by Wassily Kandinsky
  • "Jeanne Hébuterne" by Amedeo Modigliani
  • "The Card Players" by Paul Cézanne
  • "Bathers" past Paul Cézanne

Mary Cassatt

MET American Wing Collection

  • "Washington Crossing the Delaware" past Emanuel Leutze
  • "Portrait of Madame Ten" by John Vocaliser Sargent
  • "Mother and Child" past Mary Cassatt
  • "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri" by George Caleb Bingham
  • "The Gulf Stream" by Winslow Homer
  • "The Parthenon" by Frederic Edwin Church
  • "The Aegean Sea" by Frederic Edwin Church
  • "Alexander Hamilton" by John Trumbull
  • "Lady at the Tea Table" by Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt, Suffrage, and Mod Women

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"If you hear a voice within yous say, 'Y'all cannot paint,'
then by all means paint, and that phonation will be silenced."
– Vincent Van Gogh

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Photograph Credit: [CC0], via Wikimedia Eatables

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