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After the Bath

After the Bath

1901
(American, 1844–1926)
America, late 18th-19th Century
pastel
Sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1920.379
Catalogue raisonné: Breeskin 384
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.

Description

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.
  • 1901
    (Durand-Ruel, Paris, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH)
    1901-1920
    Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Homer Wade, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    1920-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • W. M. M. "La Sortie Du Bain by Mary Cassatt." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 10 (1920): 147-49.
    Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 147-149 www.jstor.org
    "Art Awakening Grows in Unexpected Ways." Cleveland Commercial (May 5, 1922). Mentioned: n.p.
    An Appreciation of Mary Cassatt's "La Sortie du Bain" in the Wade Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1922. Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.
    Whiting, Frederic Allen. "The Cleveland Museum of Art: Twelve Illustrations." Art and Archaeology 16, no. 4-5 (October-November 1923): 187-94. Reproduced: p. 192
    Arts and Decoration 20, no. 4 (February 1924). Reproduced: cover illustration
    "Famous Pastel is Owned by Museum." Cleveland Times (February 1, 1925). Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.
    W. M. M., T. S., R. H., and F. A. W. "In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 4 (1926): 63-91. Mentioned: p. 65; Reproduced: p. 77 25136919
    Kane, Katherine Regan. "Mother and Child: Favorite Theme in the Art of Every Country." American Home 17, no. 1 (December 1936): 15-17, 68, 81-84. Mentioned: p. 84; Reproduced: p. 15
    Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1937. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 15, no. 26
    Kelly, Grace V. "In Museum's Show of U.S. Art." Cleveland Plain Dealer (July 2, 1937). Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.
    Jewell, Edward Alden and Aimée Crane. French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944. Reproduced: p. 131
    Breuning, Margaret. Mary Cassatt. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944. Reproduced: p. 23
    Hartlaub, Gustav Friedrich. Impressionists in France. Milan: Uffici Press, 1950. Reproduced: p. 40
    Sweet, Frederick A. Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 1954. Mentioned and reproduced p. 34, no. 26
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 546 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 188 archive.org
    Sweet, Frederick A. Miss Mary Cassatt, Impressionist from Pennsylvania. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Mentioned: p. 140; Reproduced: pl. VIII
    Neilson, Winthrop and Frances Fullerton Neilson. Seven Women: Great Painters. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co, 1968. Mentioned: p. 167
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 188 archive.org
    Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Watercolors, and Drawings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1970. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 384
    Bullard, E. John. Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1972. Mentioned: p. 68; Reproduced: p. 69, pl. 24
    Cullinan, Helen. "Brotherly Love for Sisters' Work." Cleveland Plain Dealer (June 9, 1974). Mentioned and reproduced: n.p.
    Henkes, Robert. Eight American Women Painters. New York: Gordon Press, 1977. Reproduced: fig. 10
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 234 archive.org
    Yaegashi, Haruki and Takeshi Kashiwat. Kasatto/Cassatt. Tōkyō: Senshukai, 1978. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 26
    Love, Richard H. Cassatt: The Independent. Chicago: Milton H. Kreines, 1980. Mentioned: p. 122; Reproduced: ill. 38
    Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Mentioned: p. 124-5; Reproduced: p. 127
    Craze, Sophia. Mary Cassatt. New York: Crescent Books, 1990. Reproduced: pp. 102-3
    Costantino, Maria. Mary Cassatt. New York: Brompton, 1995. Reproduced: p. 104
    Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Cassatt: A Retrospective. New York: H.L. Levin Associates, 1996. Reproduced: pp. 276-77, pl. 93
    Pollock, Griselda. Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998. Reproduced: p. 23
    Nochlin, Linda. Representing Women. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Mentioned: p. 265; Reproduced: fig. 114
    DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: p. 1; Reproduced: p. 2
    Pollock, Griselda. Mary Cassatt. London: Chaucer, 2005. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 232, no. 79
    Robinson, William H. Monet to Dalí: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
    Lemonedes, Heather, "Unparalleled Color", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 10, December 2007 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 5 archive.org
    Lemonedes, Heather. "The Feminine Ideal." Cleveland Art (September/October 2012): 4-6. Reproduced: p. 5
    Exhibitions.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 1 (January/February 2017): 4. Reproduced: P. 4.
  • Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).
    Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
    CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005).
    Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).
    Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).
    Fraternite: Artistic Relations Between France and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 21-October 18, 1987).
    Miss Mary Cassatt. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (July 1-September 5, 1966).
    Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
    Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (January 14-February 25, 1954); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (March 25-May 23, 1954).
    35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
    19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
    Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
    2nd Annual Exhibition of American and European Art. Dallas Art Association (1921).
    28th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture. Art Institute of Chicago (1915-16).
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