On Cats by Jacques Dalbray
1901
- Medium
- Color lithograph illustration with letterpress
- Dimensions
- 39.5 × 58.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-194385
On this page from the March 30, 1901, issue of L’Illustration (Illustration), a French magazine, colorful depictions of cats surround a short text praising those animals and their place in history. The cats sit, sleep, and prowl around the columns of text, as if they are furnishings to climb and sleep on. Color illustrations were particularly difficult and expensive to reproduce before the advent of modern printing technology because each color had to be printed independently. As a result, artists like Théophile Alexandre Steinlen developed strategies to achieve the maximum effect by overlapp…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, 2016.247
Registry history
- 1901 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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