Confidences, from A New Sentimental Education
1901
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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Charles Maurin
Charles Maurin (1856–1914) was a French artist, born in Le Puy-en-Velay.
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Confidences, from A New Sentimental Education is a 1901 by Charles Maurin, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a mother leaning down to talk to her young child on a sunny porch. The child looks up, holding a small book. Soft light falls on their faces. Maurin often used printmaking too. He made two sets of prints called *A Sentimental Education* and *A New Sentimental Education*. He borrowed some tricks from artist Mary Cassatt’s color prints. See this in person at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Charles Maurin's first color intaglio prints were made around the same time as Cassatt's extraordinary series of 10 color prints, and his subsequent graphic work owed a debt to her prints in both technique and subject. Later, he made two suites of prints, A Sentimental Education, 1897, and A New Sentimental Education, 1901, both of which were described as depicting "a mother attentive to the care of her child through the intimate details of daily life." Unlike Cassatt's cursory and abstracted drypoints of a mother and child like Reine and Margot Seated on a Sofa, Maurin surrounded his figures…
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Charles Maurin (1856–1914) was a French artist, born in Le Puy-en-Velay.
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