Woman Seated Holding a Cat on Her Knees

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Title

Woman Seated Holding a Cat on Her Knees

Place

France (Artist's nationality)

Date

Artist's working dates 1744–1780

Medium

Black chalk and graphite, with pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and touches of grey wash, on grayish-ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto in pen and black ink in corner of “painting” in background: illeg. / Coypel 1727

Dimensions

18.4 × 15 cm (7 1/4 × 5 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Celia and David Hilliard in honor of Dorothy Braude Edinburg

Reference Number

1998.739

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