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Mother's Goodnight Kiss

Pastel drawing of a seated woman wearing a brown dress, holding and kissing her young child, who is dressed in blue and sucking her fingers.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • Pastel drawing of a seated woman wearing a brown dress, holding and kissing her young child, who is dressed in blue and sucking her fingers.

Date:

1888

Artist:

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Mary Cassatt

Title

Mother's Goodnight Kiss

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1888

Medium

Pastel on blue-gray wove paper (faded to tan), mounted on canvas, on a strainer

Inscriptions

Signed recto, upper left: "Mary Cassatt"

Dimensions

84 × 73.8 cm (33 1/8 × 29 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer

Reference Number

1922.421

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