Cat and Flowers
Sheet: 12 11/16 x 9 7/8 inches (32.23 x 25.08 cm)
Edouard Manet held a lifelong interest in the still-life genre. In this intaglio print, he combined etching and aquatint techniques to represent a cat prowling among flora. Manet used a stylus to create thin, acid-etched lines in a metal plate. When printed, this technique produced the soft hatched lines of the cat and flowers. The image’s fields of flat, varying tones resulted from Manet’s use of aquatint.
Jack Freborg (1931–1997), Kankakee, IL, by March 20, 1989;
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1989.
Etienne Moreau-Nélaton,Manet, graveur et lithographe(Paris: Loys Delteil, 1906), no. 53.
Marcel Guérin, L'Œuvre gravé de Manet (Paris: Floury, 1944; repr., New York: Da Capo Press, 1969), no. 53.
Jean C. Harris, Edouard Manet: Graphic Works; a definitive catalogue raisonné (New York: Collectors Editions, 1970), no. 65.
George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460 –1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 293.
