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Maternal Caress
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
about 1891
Medium/Technique
Drypoint, soft ground etching and color aquatint
Dimensions
Platemark: 37 x 26.8 cm (14 9/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 48.4 x 31 cm (19 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 48.4 x 31 cm (19 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William Emerson and The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund
Accession Number41.808
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Breeskin 150, iii/iii; Mathews & Shapiro 12, trial proof A of vi/vi
State
M&S viA/vi
DescriptionTrial proof A
Signed
Signed
Marks
Recto: in blue ink, lower center of plate: collector's stamp of Mary Cassatt (Lugt 604)
InscriptionsRecto: in graphite, lower left corner: A; in graphite, lower right, below plate: Imprimé par l' artiste et M. LeRoy/ Mary Cassatt
ProvenanceJean Goriany, from whom purchased by MFA Nov. 13, 1941