File:Edwin Henry Landseer Cat's Paw MIA 8247.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 | [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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Credit/Provider | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
Source | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
Headline | Sir Edwin Henry Landseer; The Cat's Paw; c. 1824 |
Online copyright statement | www.artsmia.org |
Author | Associate Photographer, Charles Walbridge |
Short title |
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Publisher | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
City shown | Minneapolis |
Orientation | Normal |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Unique ID of original document | 8A0746DFC638CD1E4B3927C22319262B |
Writer | Heidi S. Raatz |
Original transmission location code | 3077 |
Copyright status | Copyright status not set |
Date metadata was last modified | 07:30, 15 April 2013 |
Keywords |
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Contact information |
www.artsmia.org 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55404 United States of America |
Province or state shown | Minnesota |
Country shown | United States |
Sublocation of city shown | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
Code for country shown | US |
IIM version | 4 |