Edouard Manet
Les chats (The Cats)

ArtistFrench, 1832–1883
PrinterFrench, 1822–1907
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Les chats (The Cats)
Date1868–1869, printed 1905
MediumEtching and aquatint with plate tone on light blue laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 6 7/8 × 8 5/8 in. (17.5 × 21.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 15/16 in. (28.6 × 43 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Marjorie G. Horning
Object number2013.593
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Provenance[Possibly Christopher Drake Gallery?, as of 1995]; Marjorie G. Horning Collection, 1995?-2013; to MFAH, December, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower center in pencil: Manet
recto bottom left corner in pencil: [illegible]; bottom right corner in pencil: TE
Catalogue raisonnéGuérin, Manet l'Oeuvre Gravé no 52. Bareau-Berès, Edouard Manet no 58. Fisher, Baltimore Museum, The Prints of Edouard Manet no 51.

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