Mother and Child (Cassatt)

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Mother and Child
Yearc. 1898
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Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror) is a painting by Mary Cassatt. It was painted in 1898.[1] The Havemeyers purchased the painting[2] from dealer Duand-Ruel[1] in 1899.[3] It was given by the Havermeyer family in 1929 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4]

The work depicts a mother and child, drawing from the iconography of "Mary and child" religious imagery.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b Spassky, Natalie (1965). American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870994395.
  2. ^ "Mary Cassatt | Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror) | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  3. ^ Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (1993). Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870996641.
  4. ^ "Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  5. ^ "Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror) | Mary Cassatt | 29.100.47 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  6. ^ Weinberg, Helene Barbara (2009). American Impressionism & Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781876509996.

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