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After the Bath
by Mary Cassatt
About the Artwork
Mary Cassatt began using pastel in the 1870s and continued to experiment with the medium throughout her career. This drawing depicts a mother and child, one of the artist's preferred subjects. Cassatt typically used the technique seen here, in which she finished her sitters' faces with a high degree of detail but rendered the rest of the composition in a much looser and sketchier style.
Provenance
1901: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH) 1901-1920: Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1920-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (January 14-February 25, 1954); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (March 25-May 23, 1954). Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). Miss Mary Cassatt. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (July 1-September 5, 1966). Fraternite: Artistic Relations Between France and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 21-October 18, 1987). Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000). CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013). Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- pastel
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Accession no.
- 1920.379
More by Mary Cassatt in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000320
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