The Child's Bath

1893

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

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 to sit upright on the surface of the canvas. Adding to this sense of flatness, pattern is everywhere within the frame. These formal elements reflect Cassatt’s intense engagement with Japanese aesthetics in the 1890s.

An extraordinary composition featuring the artist’s signature subject, The Child’s Bath was widely exhibited beginning in 1893. The Art Institute of Chicago purchased the painting in 1910—making it the first work by Cassatt to enter the museum’s collection.

Status: On View, Gallery 184
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Mary Cassatt
Title: The Child's Bath
Place: France (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-left, on floor, in blue paint: "Mary Cassatt".
Dimensions: 101.3 × 67.3 cm (39 15/16 × 26 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Robert A. Waller Fund
Reference Number: 1910.2
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Sixty–Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1898), cat. 62 (ill.), as The Toilet.
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Cincinnati Museum Association, Catalogue of the Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Art in the Art Museum, exh. cat. (Cincinnati Museum Association, 1900), 5, cat. 13 (ill.), as La Toilette.
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Sadakichi Hartman, A History of American Art, vol. 2 (L.C. Page and Company, 1902), 189 (ill.), as The Toilet.
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Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), 188.
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M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces by Old and Modern Painters, exh. cat. (Knoedler & Co., 1915), n.p.
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Édith Valerio, Mary Cassatt (Èditions G. Cres & Cie, 1930), 17, no. 5 (ill.).
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“A Rearrangement of the Paintings Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 27, no. 7 (Dec. 1933): 188 (ill.), as The Toilet.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today, exh. cat. (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1937), 16, cat. 27, pl. 12 (ill.), as The Toilet.
Brooklyn Museum, Leaders of American Impressionism, exh. cat. (Brooklyn Museum, 1937), 25, cat. 22, as La Toilette.
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt: The Catalogue of a Comprehensive Exhibition of Her Work, exh. cat. (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941), n.p., cat. 25 (ill.), as The Toilet.
“Spinster Mary,” Time Magazine (Dec. 15, 1941): Mother and Child (ill.).
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“Big Baltimore Show Reviews Curious Case of Mary Cassatt,” Life 12, no. 3 (Jan. 19, 1942): 55 (ill.), as The Toilet.
John Walker et al., Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729–1924 (Oxford University Press, 1943), 21, pl. 77 (ill.), as La Toilette.
Margaret Breuning, Mary Cassatt (Hyperion Press, 1944), 39 (ill.), as The Toilet.
Edward Alden Jewell, French Impressionists and their Contemporaries (Hyperion Press, Random House, 1944), 89, as The Toilet (ill.)
Palma Viardo, “Pittura Nord Americana,” Emporium 101, no. 601 (Jan. 1945): 32-33 (ill.), as La Toilette.
Wildenstein Company, A Loan Exhibition of Mary Cassatt for the Benefit of the Goddard Neighborhood Center, exh. cat. (Wildenstein Company, 1947), 32, 37, cat. 25 (ill.), as The Toilet.
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“New York: Una Retrospetiva di Mary Cassatt,” Emporium 107 (Feb. 1948), 89 (ill.), as La Toilette.
James Thomas Flaexner, A Short History of American Painting (Mifflin Company, 1950), 68, pl. 26 (ill.), as La Toilette.
James Thomas Flexner, The Pocket History of American Painting (Washington Square Press Book, 1966), 68, 113, pl. 26 (ill.), as La Toilette.
Frederick A. Sweet, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), 28, 113, cat. 19, as The Bath.
Frederick A. Sweet, “Mary Cassatt (1844-1926),” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 48, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1954): 6-7 (ill.), as The Bath.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1955), 75, 81, cat. 119 (ill.), as The Bath.
Revista de Arte 5 (Mar.-Apr. 1955): 286, no. 3 (ill.).
Daniel M. Mendelowitz, A History of American Art (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960), 294, fig. 400 (ill.), La Toilette.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 69-70, 369 (ill.).
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American Artists 26 (Jan. 1962): 54 (ill.).
Knoedler Galleries, The Paintings of Mary Cassatt, exh. cat. (Knoedler Galleries, 1966), n.p., cat. 21 (ill.), as The Bath.
Lloyd Goodrich, Art of the United States: 1670-1966, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966), 64, 147, cat. 39 (ill.), as The Bath.
Julia M. H. Carson, Mary Cassatt (McKay Company, 1966), 89 (ill.), as The Bath (La Toilette).
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Frederick Sweet, Miss Mary Cassatt, Impressionist from Pennsylvania (University of Oklahoma Press, 1966), 137, 156, color pl. 6 (ill.).
Frederick A. Sweet, “Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967): 40, fig. 7 (ill.), as The Bath.
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Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970), 104, cat. 205 (ill.).
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt 1844-1926, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1970), 27, cat. 49 (ill.), as The Bath.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th–Century America: Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), n.p., cat. 169, as La Toilette.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Thames and Hudson, 1970), 104–105 (ill.), as The Bath.
James Thomas Flaexner, Nineteenth Century American Painting (Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 240-241 (ill.), as The Bath.
Russell Lynes, The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America (Atheneum, 1970), 445 (ill.), as The Bath.
John E. Bullard, Mary Cassatt, Oils and Pastels (National Gallery of Art/Watson–Guptil Publications, 1972), 52-53, pl. 16 (ill.), as The Bath.
Donelson Hoopes, The American Impressionists (Watson–Guptil Publication, 1972), 36-37, pl. 9 (ill.), as The Bath.
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art (Country Beautiful Corporation, 1972), 168-169 (ill.), as The Bath (La Toilette).
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Mary Cassatt 1844–1926, exh. cat. (Newport Harbor Museum, 1973), cat. 7, as The Bath.
“American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Part II: The Nineteenth Century,” Magazine Antiques (Nov. 1973): 904 (ill.).
Nancy Hale, Mary Cassatt (Doubleday and Company, 1975), 195 (ill.), as The Bath.
Milton W. Brown, American Art to 1900: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (Abrams, 1977), 569, pl. 67 (ill.), as The Bath.
Guy Hubbard and Mary J. Rouse, Art: Choosing and Expressing (Benefic Press, 1977), 229 (ill.), as The Bath.
Donna G. Bachmann and Sherry Piland, Woman Artists: An Historical, Contemporary and Feminist Biography (The Scarecrow Press, 1978), 158 (ill.).
Art Institute of ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago: One Hundred Masterpieces (Art Institute of Chicago/Rand McNally and Company, 1978), 114-115 (ill.).
Jay Roudebush, Mary Cassatt (Crown Publishers, 1979), 49 (ill.), as The Bath.
Chicago Historical Society, “The Art Institute of Chicago: A Centennial Perspective,” Chicago History 9, no. 1 (Spring 1979): 36 (ill.), as The Bath.
Germaine Greer, “The Repression of Women Artists,” The Atlantic (Sept. 1979): 71 (ill.).
Mahonri Sharp–Young, American Realists: Homer to Hopper (Watson–Guptill, 1981), 26, 52 (ill.), as The Bath.
Art Institute of ChicagoPocketguide to The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), 38, cat. 52 (ill.).
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Carol Troyen, and Trevor Fairbrother, A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910, exh. cat. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1983), n.p., cat. 94 (ill), as The Bath.
John Russell, “‘New World’ Exhibition Arrives in Paris,” New York Times (Apr. 2, 1094): 18.
Nancy Mowll Mathews, ed., Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters (Abbeville Press, 1984), 257, 259, fig. 36 (ill.), as The Bath.
Suzanne G. Lindsay, Mary Cassatt and Philadelphia, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1985), 24, 32, fig. 29 (ill.), as The Bath.
Robert H. Pelfrey with Mary Hall-Pelfrey, Art and Mass Media (Harper and Row, 1985), 175, fig. 7.12 (ill.).
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Thames and Hudson, 1987), 104–105 (ill.), as The Bath.
Douglas Druick, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 99, (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Arts and Antiques (Lakeside Group, 1988), 23, fig. 5 (ill.).
Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 134, no. 4 (Oct. 1988): 822–35, pl. 14 (ill.).
James Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 99 (ill.), as The Bath.
Lita Solis–Cohen, “Chicago Shows Off—Tastefully,” Maine Antique Digest (Dec. 1988): 12B–15B (ill.).
Horst de la Croix, Richard G. Tansey, and Diane Kirkpatrick, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 9th edition (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1991), 929, fig. 21-77 (ill.).
Alison Effeny, Cassatt (Studio Editions, 1991), 106-107 (ill.).
“Tempo Women,” Chicago Tribune (Apr. 21, 1991): Sec. 6C, 7 (ill.).
Leslie Sills, Visions: Stories About Women Artists (Albert Whitman and Co., 1992): 17 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), cover, 36 (ill.), as The Bath.
Robert Henkes, Themes in American Painting: A Reference Work to Common Styles and Genres (McFarland & Company, 1993), 1-4 (ill.).
Renee Enna, “Painting a Picture of Mary Cassatt,” Pioneer Press (Apr. 21, 1983): B1 (ill.).
H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), 246–47, 294–95, 365, cat. 13, fig. 303 (ill.), as The Bath.
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James Wood, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1999), 100 (ill.).
James N. Wood with N. Mancoff, Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 177 (ill.).
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Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 56, 58, 61, cat. 24 (ill.).
Sylvie Patry, ed., Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market, exh. cat. (The National Gallery, 2014), 138, 236, fig. 90, cat. 4 (ill.).
Jennifer A. Thompson, “Durand-Ruel and America” in Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market, Sylvie Patry, editor, exh. cat. (London: The National Gallery, 2014), 151.
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Ruth E. Iskin, Mary Cassatt Between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy (University of California Press, 2025), 178, 208, fig. 5.17 (ill.); fig. 6.3 (installation in 1915 exhibition, Knoedler Gallery).
Annelise K. Madsen, Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism, ex. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), 27, 156-157, 198, cat. 53 (ill.).

Paris, Galeries Durand–Ruel, Exposition de Tableaux, Pastels et Gravures de Mary Cassatt, Nov.–Dec. 1893, cat. 1.
New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, Exposition of Paintings, Pastels and Etchings by Miss Mary Cassatt, Apr. 16–30, 1895, cat. 21, as La Toilette.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sixty–Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jan. 10–Feb. 22, 1898, cat. 62, as The Toilet.
Cincinnati Museum Association, Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Art in the Art Museum, May 19–July 9, 1900, cat. 13, as La Toilette.
New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt, Nov. 5–21, 1903, cat. 6, as La Toilette.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, Jan. 7–Feb. 7, 1915, cat. 151, as The Toilet.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co. Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces by Old and Modern Painters, Apr. 6–24, 1915.
Art Institute of Chicago, Memorial Collection of the Works of Mary Cassatt, Dec. 21, 1926–Jan. 24, 1927, cat. 29, as The Toilet.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Mary Cassatt, Mar. 15–Apr. 15, 1928, cat. 38 or 39, as The Toilet.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Survey of American Painting from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute, July 21–Oct. 9, 1932, as La Toilette, [downloadable checklist available].
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 439, as The Toilet.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 440, as The Toilet.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today, June 23–Oct. 4, 1937, cat. 27, as The Toilet.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, Leaders of American Impressionism: Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John H. Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Oct. 1937, cat. 22, as La Toilette.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time, May 1–Sept. 25, 1939, cat. 48, as The Toilet.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States, June 5–Sept. 1, 1941, cat. 23, as La Toilette.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt: A Comprehensive Exhibition of Her Work, Nov. 28, 1941–Jan. 11, 1942, cat. 25, as The Toilet.
New York, Wildenstein Company, A Loan Exhibition of Mary Cassatt for the Benefit of the Goddard Neighborhood Center, Oct. 29–Dec. 6, 1947, cat. 25, as The Toilet.
Des Moines Art Center, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European and American Art, June–July, 1948, cat. 16, as La Toilette.
Springfield, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Fifteen Fine Paintings, Oct. 7–Nov. 7, 1948, no cat., as La Toilette.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, Landmarks in American Art, 1670–1950, Feb. 26–Mar. 28, 1953, cat. 38, as La Toilette.
Art Institute of Chicago, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Jan. 14–Feb. 25, 1954, cat. 19, as The Bath; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 25-May 23, 1954.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Apr. 22–May 3, 1956, cat. 119, as The Bath.
Milwaukee, WI, Marquette University, Brooks Memorial Union, Seventy–Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Festival of the American Arts, Apr. 22–May 3, cat. 12, as The Bath.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Painting in America, The Story of 450 Years, Apr. 23–June 9, 1957, cat. 122, as The Bath.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
New York, Knoedler Galleries, The Paintings of Mary Cassatt, Feb. 1–26, 1966, cat. 21, as The Bath.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art of the United States: 1670–1966, Sept. 28–Nov. 27, 1966, cat. 39, as The Bath.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Sept. 27, 1970–Nov. 8, 1970, cat. 49, as The Bath.
Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, Apr. 10–June 1, 1978, cat. 4, as The Bath (La Toilette) .
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th–Century America: Paintings and Sculpture, Apr. 16–Sept. 7, 1970, cat. 169, as La Toilette.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Mary Cassatt, 1844–1926, Sept. 27–Nov. 8, 1970, cat. 49, as The Bath.
Newport Beach, CA, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Mary Cassatt 1844–1926, Dec. 12, 1973–Jan. 20, 1974, cat. 7, as The Bath; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Feb. 2-Mar. 17, 1974.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mary Cassatt at Home, Aug. 5–Sept. 24, 1978, cat. 19, as The Bath.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1790–1910, Sept. 7–Nov. 13, 1983, cat. 94, as The Bath; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Art Gallery, Dec. 7, 1983–Feb. 12, 1984; Paris, Grand Palais, Mar. 16, 1984–June 11, 1984.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915, May 10–July 24, 1994, cat. 13, as The Bath; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Aug. 21–Oct. 30, 1994; Denver Art Museum, Dec. 3, 1994–Feb. 5, 1995; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 12–May 14, 1995 (New York only).
Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, On View to the World: Paintings at the Trans–Mississippi Exposition, May 30–Sept. 6, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, Oct. 13, 1998–Jan. 10, 1999, cat. 72; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 14–May 9, 1999; Washington, D.C., National Gallery, June 6–Sept. 6, 1999.
Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Paul Durand-Ruel: Le Pari de l’Impressionnisme, Oct. 9, 2014–Feb. 8, 2015, cat. 4; London, The National Gallery, Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market, Mar. 4-May 31. 2015; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel; and the New Painting, June 24-Sept. 13, 2015.
Art Institute of Chicago, Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism, Sept. 6, 2026–Jan. 3, 2027, cat. 53.

The artist; sold to Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, Nov. 24, 1893 [Galeries Durand-Ruel 1893, cat. 1; this and the following according to letter from Charles Durand-Ruel, Jan. 30, 1979; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel Galleries (Durand-Ruel & Son Galleries), New York, Dec. 27, 1893; sold to (Arthur) Harris Whittemore, Jr. (1864–1927), Naugatuck, CT, Jan. 17, 1894 [personal communication from Flavie Durand-Ruel and Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Mar. 23, 2026; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Feb. 4, 1899; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.

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