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Mother And Child In A Boat
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
An open-water take on the lifelong theme of Cassatt, painted in oil on canvas with the texture and colour depth of the original, and ideal for a room that wants warmth without sentimentality.
Description
Description
Most of the work by Cassatt turns on the quiet choreography between mothers and children, painted with a directness that avoids sentimentality even as it lingers on tenderness. Mother And Child In A Boat pushes that lifelong preoccupation outdoors, onto open water, and the shift changes everything about how the picture feels. Here the enclosed domestic room gives way to sky and reflected light, and the intimacy of the subject has to hold its own against a much larger, more restless setting.
About Mother and Child in a Boat
The composition places the two figures low and close within the boat, their forms gathered into a single compact shape that the surrounding water only makes more pronounced. Cassatt was working in the years when her exposure to Japanese woodblock prints had reshaped her sense of design, and you can feel that influence in the flattened planes, the cropped edges, and the confident use of pattern across the water surface. Brushwork that describes the ripples stays loose and quick, while the passage devoted to mother and child tightens into something more careful, and that contrast alone tells you where she wants the eye to rest.
Colour does much of the emotional work. Cool blues and greens dominate the water and the surrounding air, and against them the warmer flesh tones of the figures read as the true centre of gravity in the picture. Light falls evenly rather than dramatically, a choice consistent with the Impressionist interest in outdoor illumination, but Cassatt uses it to model form gently rather than to dissolve it, keeping the figures solid and present. The painting belongs to a mature phase of her career, when her command of composition had become confident enough to take domestic subject matter into open, unconventional settings without losing its warmth.
Owning this scene as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction means owning something built the same way the original was, layer by layer in oil on artist-grade canvas, rather than output from a printer. A trained painter works from close study of the palette of Cassatt, matching her colour relationships and rebuilding the brushwork by hand, so the ripples in the water and the softer modelling of the figures both carry real texture you can see change under changing light. It is a fine art reproduction in the fullest sense, an individually painted object rather than a copy pulled from a machine.
The hand-painted reproduction
This is a painting for a room that gets morning light, or for anyone drawn to Cassatt for the way she paints care without ever making it saccharine. It would suit a collector building a group of Impressionist reproductions, a nursery or family room where the subject has obvious resonance, or simply a wall that could use something calm and human to return to.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed reproduction
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your space
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- 90 day returns, with a full refund or a free replacement and no restocking fee
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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.
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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.
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