1900, Mary Cassatt, Young Mother Sewing -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Around 1890, Mary Cassatt embraced what would become her defining subjects—women and children—revealing her affection for her nieces and nephews as well as the prevailing cultural interest in childrearing. For this painting, she enlisted two unrelated models to enact the roles of mother and child. Cassatt's great friend and patron, Louisine Havemeyer, who purchased the work in 1901, remarked on its truthfulness: "Look at that little child that has just thrown herself against her mother's knee, regardless of the result and oblivious to the fact that she could disturb 'her mamma.' And she is quite right, she does not disturb her mother."
1900, Mary Cassatt, Young Mother Sewing -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Around 1890, Mary Cassatt embraced what would become her defining subjects—women and children—revealing her affection for her nieces and nephews as well as the prevailing cultural interest in childrearing. For this painting, she enlisted two unrelated models to enact the roles of mother and child. Cassatt's great friend and patron, Louisine Havemeyer, who purchased the work in 1901, remarked on its truthfulness: "Look at that little child that has just thrown herself against her mother's knee, regardless of the result and oblivious to the fact that she could disturb 'her mamma.' And she is quite right, she does not disturb her mother."