America, late 18th-19th Century / 1901
After the Bath
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs After the Bath as drawing (America, late 18th-19th Century · 1901).
Mary Cassatt once commented that pastel was "the most satisfactory medium for [portraying] children," since they could not sit still for long and the medium allowed for rapid sketching.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this drawing as pastel and credits Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926).
The museum's collection notes: 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.
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