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Object Types
Dimensions
9-7/8 x 12-5/8 in.
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Jacob Metzger Fund
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Collection
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
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Provenance
Purchased by the John Herron Art Institute in 1929 {1} now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Gallery Labels
The Bath is one of a set of ten color prints that depict the artist’s preferred motif, women and children, in a new pictorial mode. In 1890 Cassatt had visited an exhibition of Japanese art in Paris. There she saw woodblock prints that inspired her to work with Japanese design principles. This approach, called japonisme, employs flat, unmodeled forms and simplified patterns.
Cassatt used different printmaking techniques, etching and drypoint, to achieve the emphatic line characteristic of the woodblock print. In addition, ink applied directly to the plate in broad planes of color imitates the visual effect of the woodblock print, which requires individual blocks to be carved for each color.
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