MARY CASSATT | Mother Seated with Baby Standing Next to Her in a Landscape

Mathilde Valet, Paris (and sold: Galerie A.-M. Reitlinger, Paris, May 19-June 30, 1931, lot 1)
Mrs. Montague Israel, Montreal (acquired by 1981)
Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco (acquired in 1984)
Private Collection
Steve Banks Fine Arts, San Francisco
Acquired from the above on October 16, 1997

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 611, illustrated p. 217

The canvas is unlined and there is frame abrasion at the extreme edges. There appear to be scattered pindots of possible surface accretion possibly inherent to the artist's process and the work is slightly dirty. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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This work is included as no. 628 in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.