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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF GLORIA GURNEY

MOTHER LOUISE HOLDING UP HER BLUE-EYED CHILD

measurements
28 1/2 by 21 in.

alternate measurements
(72.4 by 53.3 cm)

signed Mary Cassatt, l.r.

pastel on paper

This pastel will be included in the Cassatt Committee's revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.

PROVENANCE

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France
sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 10, 1944, no. 13, lot #A, illustrated, as Mère et Enfant
sale: Galerie Charpentier sale, Paris, France, June 17, 1958
de Poplavsky
sale: Sotheby's, London, England, April 24, 1968, no. 88, as (Mère et Bébé )
sale: Christie's, New York, December 1, 1989, lot 180, illustrated in color
sale: Christie's, New York, May 26, 1994, lot 86, illustrated in color
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

EXHIBITED

Paris, France, Musée Marmottan, Les Femmes Impressionistes: Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot, October-December 1993, no. 12, p. 130, illustrated as Mère et Bébé


LITERATURE

Adelyn D. Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 138, no. 312, illustrated
Geoffrey Grigson, "Images of Tenderness: The Mother and Child in Art," Country Life, December 4, 1975, pp. 1518-20, illustrated

NOTE

According to Adelyn Breeskin, the model for the mother is Louise Frissier of Fresneaux, Mont Chevreuil, near Mary Cassatt's country house in the Oise region, fifty miles northwest of Paris.