The Child’s Bath

Date: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 101.3 × 67.3 cm (39 15/16 × 26 1/2 in.)
Inscription: Signed lower left
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £9,000,000 – 13,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Philadelphia
Private collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, solo exhibition, 1893

Literature

Breeskin, Mary Cassatt: catalogue raisonné, no. 205

Condition

Unlined and in fine state. The patterning retains its full crispness.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

C In the same sale