By the Pond
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By the Pond
189819th Century
14 7/8 in. x 18 in. (37.78 cm x 45.72 cm)
Mary Cassatt, American, (1844–1926)
Object Type:
Works on Paper
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Color etching and drypoint on paper
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. M. C. Sloss
Accession Number:
1960.16
Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker working in France who developed her artwork during the Impressionist period. She is most known for her mother/child pieces which highlight the small moments experienced when raising children during the late nineteenth century. Although Cassatt is most well-known for her Impressionist oil paintings, which feature a loose brushstroke style, she often dabbled in various printmaking techniques such as drypoint, soft-ground etching, aquatint, woodblock, and hand coloring. By the Pond, a print made in 1898, captures a warm and loving moment between a mother and her son. Depictions of a mother’s home life while raising a child was an under-represented genre in art and Cassatt’s paintings and prints shine a light on the maternal labor of upper and middle-class women in the nineteenth century.
--Mollie Schottsteadt, January 2022
--Mollie Schottsteadt, January 2022
Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Selections from the American Print Collection Mills College Art Gallery , 2/16/1975 - 3/16/1975
- From Image to Text: Mills Women Write About the Collection Mills College Art Museum , 8/28/2002 - 12/15/2002
- Unseen: The Hidden Labor of Women Mills College Art Museum , 1/22/2022 - 3/13/2022
Dimensions
- Mat Dimensions: 19 7/8 in. x 23 7/8 in. (50.48 cm x 60.64 cm)
- Image Dimensions: 13 in. x 16 7/8 in. (33.02 cm x 42.86 cm)
- Sheet Dimensions: 14 7/8 x 18 in. (37.78 x 45.72 cm)
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