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Feeding the Ducks

Color print of two light-skinned women and a child in 19th-century European dress sitting in a small boat feeding ducks.

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  • Color print of two light-skinned women and a child in 19th-century European dress sitting in a small boat feeding ducks.

Date:

c. 1895

Artist:

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844-1926

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Mary Cassatt

Title

Feeding the Ducks

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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.

1890–1900

Medium

Drypoint and aquatint, with monotype inking, in color on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 29.7 × 39.5 cm (11 3/4 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet: 38.6 × 49.5 cm (15 1/4 × 19 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Laura May Ripley

Reference Number

1992.159

Extended information about this artwork

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