Mary Cassatt

signed Mary Cassatt (lower center)

39 ⅜ by 28 ¾ in.

100 by 73 cm.

Durand Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 10 January 1907)

J. Gardner Cassatt, Philadelphia (the artist’s brother; probably acquired from the above in October 1907)

Eugenia Carter Cassatt, Philadelphia (acquired by descent from the above)

Ellen Mary Cassatt Hare (Mrs. Horace Binney), Philadelphia (acquired by descent from the above)

Charles W. Hare, Philadelphia (acquired by descent from the above)

Ellen Mary Cassatt Hare Meigs, Berwyn, Pennsylvania (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie’s, New York, 24 May 2007, lot 54 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection, Palm Beach (acquired from the above)

Christie's, New York, 11 November 2018, lot 59A (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Boston, St. Botolph's Club, Pictures by Mary Cassatt, 1909, no. 7 (titled Femme avec deux enfants)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 107th Annual Exhibition, 1912, no. 472, p. 46 (titled Mother and Children)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, 1920, no. 17, p. 6 (titled Woman with Two Children)

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mary Cassatt, 1928, no. 18 or 19 (titled Mother and Two Children)

Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Mary Cassatt, 1939, no. 6 (titled Mother and Two Children)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Homer, Eakins, Cassatt, 1953, no. 55 (titled Mother and Children)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt, 1960 (titled Mother and Two Children)

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., The Paintings of Mary Cassatt: A Benefit Exhibition for the Development of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1966, no. 40, illustrated (titled Mother (Jeanne) Looking Down at Her Two Children Petting a Dog)

"Miss Cassatt's 'Triumphs of Uncomeliness'" New York Times, 25 August 1907, p. 8, illustrated (titled Baby and Dog).

“Le Mois Artistique,” L'Art est les Artistes, vol. VI, no. 31, October 1907- March 1908, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Enfant jouant avec un chien); n.p. (titled Enfant caressant un chien)

"Revue des revues" La chronique des arts et de la curiosité, vol. 15, 11 April 1908, p. 138 (titled Enfant caressant un chien)

Philip Leslie Hale, "Miss Cassatt's Works. Has Several Good Pictures at St. Botolph Club Exhibition" Boston Herald, 8 February 1909, p. 7

Harriet Monroe, "Notable American Salon at Pittsburgh" Chicago Tribune, 30 May 1909, p. B5

"Philadelphia Art Show" New York Evening Post, 7 February 1912, p. 11

"Art: Art in Philadelphia" The Nation, vol. 94, no. 2434, 22 February 1912, p. 196

James B. Townsend, "Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition (Final Notice)" American Art News, vol. X, no. 20, 24 February 1912, p. 3 (titled Mother and Children)

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 502, p. 19; p. 188, illustrated (dated 1908)

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt and Philadelphia, 1985, pp. 92-93 and 95 (titled Mother and Child and Children Playing with a Dog)

Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, 1998, pp. 359-360

This work is included as no. 508 in the Cassatt Committee’s revision of Adelyn Dohme Breeskin’s catalogue raisonné of the works of Mary Cassatt.