Color aquatint and drypoint, with softground, on ivory laid paper, 1890
About this work
Maternal Caress (1890–91) by Mary Cassatt. Color aquatint and drypoint, with softground, on ivory laid paper.
Mary Cassatt
American Impressionist painter of modern women and children
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker who lived much of her adult life in France. She was one of only three women — and the only American — to exhibit with the French Impressionists.