The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt (1893)
Mary Cassatt’s The Child’s Bath (1893) recasts an ordinary ritual as <strong>modern devotion</strong>. From a steep, print-like vantage, interlocking stripes, circles, and diagonals focus attention on <strong>touch, care, and renewal</strong>, turning domestic labor into a subject of high art <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>. The work synthesizes Impressionist sensitivity with <strong>Japonisme</strong> design to monumentalize the private sphere <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
