The Child's Bath by Mary Cassatt
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The Child's Bath

Mary Cassatt · 1893

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, November 24, 1893 [Paris 2015]; sold to Harris Whittemore, CT, January 17, 1894 [Paris 2015]; sold by him back to Durand-Ruel, New York, February 4, 1899 [Paris 2015]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galeries Durand–Ruel, Exposition de Tableaux, Pastels et Gravures de Mary Cassatt, Nov–Dec. 1893, cat. 1, as La Toilette de l’Enfant.
  • New York City, 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, Jan. 10–Feb. 22, 1898, cat. 62, as The Toilet, lent by Messrs. Durand–Ruel and Sons.
  • Cincinnati Museum Association, Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Art in the Art Museum, May 19–July 9, 1900, cat. 13, as La Toilette, lent by M. Durand–Ruel, New York.
  • New York City, 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.
  • 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 Art, July 21–Oct. 9, 1932, as La Toilette.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today, June 23–Oct. 4, 1937, cat. 27, as The Toilet.
  • 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 City, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time, May 1–Sept. 25, 1939, cat. 48, as The Toilet.

Literature

Published references

  • Maud Howe Elliot, ed., Art and Handicraft in the Woman’s Building of the World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893).
  • New York Times, Mar. 5, 1895, Supplement, 158, col. 2.
  • “Pictures by Mary Cassatt at Durand–Ruel,” New York Times, May 18, 1895.
  • “In the World of Art, Cassatt at Durand–Ruel,” New York Times, May 21, 1895, 13, col. 13.
  • Brush & Pencil, 6 (July 1900), 182, no. 183.
  • Sadakichi Hartman. A History of American Art, (L.C. Page and Company, 1901), vol. 2, 188, as The Toilet.
  • “The Cassatt Oils and Pastels at Durand–Ruel,” New York Times, Nov. 6, 1903, 7, col. 1.
  • Wynford Dewhurst, Impressionist Painting, Its Genesis and Development (London, 1904), 75–77.
  • Brush and Pencil 15 (Mar.1905), 165, as The Toilet.
  • “Miss Cassatt’s ‘Triumphs of Uncomeliness,’” New York Times, Aug. 25, 1907, Section V, 8, col. 1.
  • Minutes Book of the Art Committee Meeting of Jan. 15, 1910, 45–46.
  • “Paintings by Miss Cassatt,” New York Times, Mar. 6, 1910, Section III, 2, col.5.

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