# After the Bath

**Mary Cassatt** (American, 1844–1926)  
1901  
pastel  
Sheet: 66 x 100 cm (26 x 39 3/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1920.379. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.379).

## About this work

Mary Cassatt began using pastel in the 1870s and continued to experiment with the medium throughout her career. This drawing depicts a mother and child, one of the artist's preferred subjects. Cassatt typically used the technique seen here, in which she finished her sitters' faces with a high degree of detail but rendered the rest of the composition in a much looser and sketchier style.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Mary Cassatt drew this in 1901, aged 57. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Pastel.** Sticks of almost pure pigment with very little binder. The colour sits on the paper as powder: bright, matte and fragile.

### [Mary Cassatt](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/mary-cassatt)

American, 1844–1926

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- Culture: America, late 18th-19th Century
- The artist was 57
- Real size: about 26 × 39 in (66 × 100 cm). The original is larger than our largest print, 18 × 24 in, so every print is a reduction.
- Century: 20th century
- Movement: [Impressionism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/impressionism)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/497.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/497/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/after-the-bath-cma-101646).