# The Bath

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

## Details

- Medium: color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on laid paper
- Dimensions: plate: 32 × 24.8 cm (12 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 41.9 × 28.9 cm (16 1/2 × 11 3/8 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/5910-bath>)

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

## Image

![A woman kneels to test the water in a freestanding bathtub with one hand as she braces a nude child against her knee with the other in this vertical, colored print.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-51d3042d7aa0f5ab/full.jpg?v=65701fa57a0bc8a84818710c83ca2512583b0b3f8182933ce26c3b21362689a1>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.2735. CC0 Open Access.
- Rosenwald Collection
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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