File:Edwin Henry Landseer Cat's Paw MIA 8247FXD.jpg
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Edwin Landseer: The Cat's Paw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q328369 |
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Title |
The Cat's Paw |
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
In Jean de La Fontaine's seventeenth-century fable, which this painting illustrates, a cunning monkey persuades a cat to retrieve roasting chestnuts from a fire. The term "cat's paw," meaning a person unwittingly duped by another, derives from this tale. Numerous engraved and painted precedents for the brutality of Landseer's interpretation existed in the work of seventeenth-century Dutch and British illustrators of La Fontaine. The fabulist's symbolic use of animals to describe the tribulations of human existence became popular among nineteenth-century romantic painters and satirists. |
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Date |
circa 1824 date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
oil on panel medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions | 30 × 27.1 in (76.2 × 68.8 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1700481 |
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Current location |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Accession number |
82.47 |
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Place of creation | England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Gift of Dr. Roger L. Anderson in memory of Agnes Lynch Anderson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer |
This file was derived from: Edwin Henry Landseer Cat's Paw MIA 8247.jpg: |
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height | 5,575 |
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width | 5,029 |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
File change date and time | 18:05, 18 May 2017 |
Color space | sRGB |
Image width | 5,029 px |
Image height | 5,575 px |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:04, 18 May 2017 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:05, 18 May 2017 |