# Maternal Caress

By [Mary Cassatt](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/mary-cassatt.md>), 1890-1891.

## Details

- Medium: color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on wove paper
- Dimensions: plate: 36.4 x 26.4 cm (14 5/16 x 10 3/8 in.) sheet: 42.5 x 31.4 cm (16 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1068-maternal-caress>)

- Categories: Print, Works on Paper
- Styles: [Impressionism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/impressionism.md>)

## Image

![We look slightly down onto a young woman sitting in an upholstered chair and tightly hugging a nude, blond child in this vertical, colored print.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-fb51f414e983d4b4/full.jpg?v=c52a2ceb29ea1ed5be5124a63f03181b8b77f81bc36805b67a31ce2bd54fd390>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, 1942.6.33. CC0 Open Access.
- Gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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