The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
1893
On view — Gallery 184 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In The Child’s Bath , Cassatt centered two figures in a moment of physical closeness: a woman steadies a young charge on her lap as she holds the child’s foot in the washbasin below. The steep angle from above creates a shallow picture plane, pulling viewers into the space. The carpeted floor seems…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 101.3 × 67.3 cm (39 15/16 × 26 1/2 in.)
- Origin
- France