About the Artwork
The Bare-Footed Child
ca. 1898
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
American
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Drypoint and aquatint printed in color ink on laid paper
Plate: 9 1/2 × 12 3/8 inches (24.1 × 31.4 cm) Sheet: 12 7/8 × 16 5/8 inches (32.7 × 42.2 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund
F80.27
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right of image: Mary Cassatt
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left edge: NY( ) 65( ) Inscribed, lower right corner: E. 267 RS
Watermark: [crowned medallion containing a seated figure] Stamped, in black, lower left corner and repeated, verso, a cursive monogram: HD (?)
Provenance
1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 272 (ill.).
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Mary Cassatt, The Bare-Footed Child, ca. 1898, drypoint and aquatint printed in color ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, F80.27.
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