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Breakfast in Bed
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Breakfast in Bed by Mary Cassatt, hand-painted in oil on canvas with the soft palette and intimate brushwork of the original, made to order rather than printed.
Description
Description
Impressionism found one of its gentlest voices in the mother and child paintings that Mary Cassatt made her own during the late nineteenth century, and Breakfast in Bed belongs to that quiet body of work. Where many of her peers turned their brushes toward cafes, ballet rehearsals, and city streets, Cassatt narrowed her focus to the domestic interior, and this canvas shows her doing so with unusual tenderness and control.
About Breakfast in Bed
The composition sets a mother and child close together on a bed, their forms simplified into broad, connected shapes that fill most of the canvas. There is little background to speak of; attention stays on the two figures and the small rituals of morning, a held gaze, a hand resting against skin. Cassatt worked in a palette of soft whites, warm flesh tones, and muted pattern, letting light fall unevenly across the sheets and faces so that some passages stay loose and sketch-like while others, particularly the eyes and hands, are drawn with real precision. That contrast between finished and unfinished areas was a hallmark of her mature technique, learned in part from the Japanese prints she admired and from her long association with Edgar Degas.
By this point in her career Cassatt had moved away from Salon painting toward the freer handling and cropped, informal compositions associated with the Impressionist circle she exhibited with in Paris. Breakfast in Bed shows that shift settled into confidence: the brushwork stays visible, almost hurried in places, yet the emotional register never wavers. It is an intimate picture, made without sentimentality, and it rewards a viewer willing to look past the subject to the handling itself.
The hand-painted reproduction
Each ByMuseum reproduction of this painting is worked by a trained artist in oil on canvas rather than printed, which means the brushwork, the layered colour, and the small variations in surface texture that define the original are carried through by hand. The result is a museum quality reproduction built through the same physical process as the painting it follows, an oil painting reproduction with real depth rather than a flat facsimile. This approach suits collectors who want an actual painted object on the wall, and it suits anyone drawn to Cassatt for the warmth of the subject as much as for the skill behind it, whether the piece is meant for a bedroom, a study, or as a considered gift.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- 90 day returns with a full refund or a free replacement, no restocking fee
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
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