This piece unearths features and insights for the painting Rooster, Hen, and Hydrangeas such as:

• What’s special about silk painting.
• Buddhism symbols in Rooster, Hen, and Hydrangeas.
• Flirting fowl and Edo Period values.

Mary Cassatt’s painting Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child dwells in motherhood. Its careful composition combines with a smudgy Impressionist technique. This painting captures a moment of messy mothering.