The Child's Bath
1893 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago
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About this work
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
- Year
- 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 100.3 × 66.1 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Impressionism
A woman in a striped dress holds a small child on her lap and washes its feet in a basin of water, both of them looking down at the task, with a patterned carpet, a painted chest and a jug filling the shallow space around them. Cassatt painted it in Paris in 1893, the year after she completed a mural for the Chicago World's Fair, and it is the best known of her many pictures of women and children. The steep viewpoint from above, the flat patterns and the firm outlines come from the Japanese prints she had studied closely two years earlier when making her own colour etchings. The subject is not sentimental; it is about attention and touch. The Art Institute of Chicago bought the painting in 1910, during the artist's lifetime.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A woman washing a child's feet, with flat patterns and firm outlines, belongs in a nursery, child's bedroom or bathroom at 16×24 or 24×36. Natural wood on a white or soft pink wall; the steep viewpoint reads well above a changing table or bath.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1893)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, nursery, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
The full-bleed edition
The same plate printed edge-to-edge, filling the whole sheet — bold and immersive.
