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The Caress
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Mary Cassatt
A mother holds her child close in this warm, quiet scene by Cassatt, offered as a handmade oil painting on canvas with visible brushwork and true surface texture.
Description
Description
A mother holds a child close, her arm curved around its small body, her face bent near enough to touch. The gesture is quiet and complete in itself, and the eye settles there before it takes in anything else in the room around the two figures. Soft daylight falls across the skin and the folds of fabric, warming the scene without dramatizing it.
About The Caress Cassatt Oil Painting Reproduction
Mary Cassatt built her reputation on scenes exactly like this one, drawn from the domestic world of women and children that she observed with unusual patience and without sentimentality. The brushwork here is loose in the background and more exact around the faces and hands, a contrast that keeps attention on the tenderness of the touch rather than on the setting. Colour is kept close in tone, rose against cream, muted greens against warm flesh, so that nothing competes with the central gesture.
The painting belongs to the mature phase of the career of Cassatt, when her contact with Edgar Degas and the wider circle of French Impressionists had sharpened her sense of structure while she kept her own subject matter, the private moments of family life rarely given serious pictorial weight before her. Working in pastel and oil, she treated the mother and child theme with a directness closer to observation than to allegory, and The Caress is a clear example of that approach carried through in full colour.
Each ByMuseum reproduction of this work is hand-painted by a professional artist trained in traditional oil technique, working from close study of the palette, the brushwork, and the surface texture of the original. This is a genuine oil painting reproduction, built up in layers of real pigment on canvas rather than printed, so the raised paint and the texture of the weave are there to see and feel under the light of the room where it hangs. Reproduced this way, the picture reads less as an image and more as an object with its own presence.
The hand-painted reproduction
Hung in a bedroom, a nursery, or any quiet corner where the light is soft rather than harsh, this painting settles into the wall without demanding attention, then rewards a longer look. It suits a room meant for rest rather than display, and its mood shifts gently through the day as the light moves across it.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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.
Delivery up to 25 days
Worldwide shipping included. Each painting is produced to order and safely packed for international transport.
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Authentic hand-painted reproduction
Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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If the result does not meet expectations, return it for a full refund.
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
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
Insured Express Delivery
We ship with UPS, FedEx, or DHL straight to your door. You’ll receive a tracking number as soon as your order leaves our studio. Typical delivery is 4–5 business days after dispatch; large, framed, or stretched pieces may take longer depending on the safest shipping route.
Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
