• Young Mother Sewing aka Little Girl Leaning on her Mother's Knee is a 1900 painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise), Oil on canvas, American.
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  • Young Mother Sewing is a painting done by Mary Cassatt back in 1900. It characterises a small girl leaning on the knees of her mother who seems to be knitting...
  • Cassatt enlisted two unrelated models to enact the roles of mother and child for this painting.
  • An 1890 oil on canvas, Young Mother Sewing , by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter.
  • Painted in 1900, Young Mother Sewing depicts a young child resting on her mother’s lap, gazing almost nostalgically into the distance.
  • Havemeyer met Mary Cassatt while living in Paris, and purchased this work and others by Edgar Degas, Manet and Corot during her stay.
  • Cassatt was in the first generation of ‘New Women’, riding the waves of early 19th century feminism to universities and freedom.
  • Cassatt enlisted two unrelated models to enact the roles of mother and child for this painting.
  • Cassatt’s art centred on the lives of women, and in particular she painted many works depicting the intimate bond between mother and child.
  • Young Mother Sewing - Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker.
  • Cassatt enlisted two unrelated models to enact the roles of mother and child for this painting.