Women and child
- Artist
- Mary Cassatt
- Date
- 1889
- Style
- Impressionism
- Genre
- Genre painting
- Location
- Musée d'Orsay
The painting titled 'Women and Child' by Mary Stevenson Cassatt, demonstrates a remarkable interaction of the intimate bonds between mothers and children. This American painter, now living in France, masterfully utilized her delicate brush strokes in this Genre painting to depict the everyday life and social ties of women. Cassatt, a friend of Edgar Degas, is well regarded for having exhibited her artwork alongside the Impressionists. This captivating painting wonderfully showcases her capacity to portray maternal warmth and child-like innocence, a mainstay of her oeuvre, through the lens of Impressionism.
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