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Mère et Enfant (Le miroir ovale)
Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)
Mary Cassatt · 1899
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
About this painting
Degas privately compared it to 'the baby Jesus and his English nurse' — a backhanded jab at how Cassatt fused domestic realism with Renaissance-style tenderness.
Painting Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
82 × 66 cm (32.3 × 26 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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