The Child and the Cat
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1778
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.8 × 17 cm (9 × 6 3/4 in.); Plate: 26.1 × 19.1 cm (10 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 27.1 × 20.3 cm (10 11/16 × 8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Marguerite Gérard
Artist
Painting
Marguerite Gérard was a French painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, working primarily in oil on panel in a refined genre style. Her small-scale interior scenes depicted domestic life with meticulous attention to light, texture, and intimate domestic detail. Active during the Romantic period, she maintained an attachment to the 18th-century tradition of finely wrought easel paintings executed for private collectors.
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- Marguerite Gérard
- Year
- 1778
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.8 × 17 cm (9 × 6 3/4 in.); Plate: 26.1 × 19.1 cm (10 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 27.1 × 20.3 cm (10 11/16 × 8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1778-002238
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified