Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)

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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