Infinitely lyrical in its artless scene. The girl is concentrating on her bare feet, which her mother washes into the basin.
The woman’s face shows that she is quietly slandering – probably something quite unimportant and – tender, that is usually said to young children when they are bathed. The composition of the work refers the viewer to a series of color etchings created by Cassatt two years before this picture.
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