Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Maternité (Mother and Child) 1921 Oil on canvas, 142.9 × 172.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. Deeply impressed by the…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Sleepy Baby c.1910 Pastel on paper, 64.77 x 52.07 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Beginning in the 1880s, Mary Cassatt began to investigate themes of mothers and children. This intensely intimate, tightly cropped scene alternates between…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Jeune mère contemplant son enfant (Young Mother Gazing at Her Child) 1871 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 95.2 cm Private collection
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le lever (Young Mother Gazing at Her Child) 1871 Oil on canvas, 142.2 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This doting mother in picturesque dress and her angelic offspring are two of many such…