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Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926), Mother and Child in the Conservatory, 1906. Oil on canvas. New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum purchase with funds contributed by Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Forgotston.
The pyramidal structure of Mother and Child in the Conservatory conveys the solidity and endurance of this mother-child relationship. Mary Cassatt frequently used hand gestures to convey the intimacy and tenderness inherent in the moments she depicted. This mother’s embrace of her child and their interlocking hands evoke the emotional relationship of love and security felt by both mother and child. The image illustrates Cassatt’s tendency to depict moments that, while dramatically uneventful, are replete with the psychological nuances that characterize the development of an intimate relationship; the binding gestures convey the close interdependence of the mother and child. Cassatt’s images are a fluent expression of the duality of the maternal relationship; she captures the most elusive instant, the momentary glance, gesture, or movement, yet synthesizes it with an evocation of the permanent, universal character of the relationship.
