Frederick Carl Frieseke - The Little Mother (La Petite Mère) - 2008.106 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight. He is especially known for painting female subjects, both indoors and out.