Also called: The Bath French: La Toilette de l’enfant (Show more) The Child’s Bath, oil-on-canvas painting created in 1893 by American artist Mary Cassatt during her mature period. The work depicts an intimate and tender moment between a woman and a child without indulging in excessive sentimentality. Like much of Cassatt’s work in the early 1890s, The Child’s Bath combines the techniques of her fellow Impressionists with the aesthetics of Japanese printmaking. Cassatt was an ambitious artist who neither married nor had children, but she took as her subjects almost exclusively the lives of contemporary women in their roles as caretakers of children. Her choice of subject was perhaps limited by ...(100 of 533 words) Access the full article Help support true facts by becoming a member. Subscribe today!