In the Omnibus
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
1890–91
- Medium
- color drypoint and aquatint
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 36.6 x 26.8 cm (14 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Charles T. Brooks
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This print belongs to a series of color etchings created by Mary Cassatt between 1890 and 1891. Each was influenced by the artist's study of Japanese woodblock prints, especially in their use of flat planes of color and domestic subject matter. In the scene depicted here, a middle-class woman accompanies her nursemaid and child on errands throughout Paris. The group rides in an omnibus, a form of public transportation where different genders and classes could intermingle. While the nanny's attention stays focused on her young charge, the female subject appears distracted, gazing toward the world beyond.
