Confidences, from A New Sentimental Education
Medium
softground etching and aquatint
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift in memory of Julie Robertson
Accession Number
1995.7
Tags
male
About this artwork
Charles Maurin's first color intaglio prints were made around the same time as Cassatt's extraordinary series of 10 color prints, and his subsequent graphic work owed a debt to her prints in both technique and subject. Later, he made two suites of prints, A Sentimental Education, 1897, and A New Sentimental Education, 1901, both of which were described as depicting "a mother attentive to the care of her child through the intimate details of daily life." Unlike Cassatt's cursory and abstracted dr...