Sleeping Cat late 19th - early 20th c. Jacques Emile BLANCHE
French, oil on canvas
Cat on a Rug 1969 Elizabeth BLACKADDER
Study of a Cat 1817 Abraham COOPER
Reach II 2012 Diane HOEPTNER
c. 1945 - 50 Takahashi Shôtei (Hiroaki)
Still Life with Cat 1962 Tonia Johanna BOUMAN
Wildcat 1850 Rosa BONHEUR
Cat on a Rug 1969 Elizabeth BLACKADDER
Les Deux Chats 1918 Suzanne VALADON
Sleeping Cat and Butterflies 19th c. unknown artist
Warm Afternoon 2012 George DONALD
Cat ("Edgar Quinet") 1904 - 08 Gwen JOHN
If there's something cats excel in, it's sleeping, napping, and resting!
Averaging sixteen to eighteen hours of sleep per day, cats tend to save most of their energy for playing, hunting and attacking during the remaining eight hours!
These artists, over a period of several centuries, have captured the "cat at rest" to a T! Of the twenty-four works, five are by Elizabeth Blackadder, two are by Gwen John, and one each by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, all 19th and 2oth-century animal/cat painters, whose works have appeared in similar posts. I especially appreciate the light touch of Gwen John's watercolors, as well as her cat's name, "Edgar Quinet," after the name of the Paris Street where she lived and discovered this, her cat. These pieces span the late 19th-century through the 21st, and artists' nationalities include American, Chilean, Dutch, English, French, Sottish, and Swiss.
