Seated Woman with a Cat (c. 1776): Art, History and Details

Seated Woman with a Cat (c. 1776) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (French, 1741–1814).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Moreau le jeune was an important draftsman, printmaker, and book illustrator who was championed by the celebrated French writers of the 19th century Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules (1830-1870) de Goncourt, who also owned this drawing (the collector's stamp bearing their name can be seen in the lower left corner of the sheet). The drawing may represent a relative of the 18th-century French poet Louis Gresset (1709-1777). A portrait drawing by Moreau le jeune of Gresset-now at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame-has many similarities to this one.

Object facts

• Title: Seated Woman with a Cat
• Date: c. 1776
• Creator attribution: Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (French, 1741–1814)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: brush and gray and black wash
• Dimensions: Image: 19.2 x 16 cm (7 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.); Matted: 30 x 26.8 cm (11 13/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.396

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Burty, Philippe. Catalogue de tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés de collections d'amateurs, et exposés au profit de la caisse de secours des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes et dessinateurs. Paris: [Impr. de J. Claye], 1860.
• Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
• École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts (France), Charles Ephrussi, and Gustave Dreyfus. Catalogue Descriptif Des Dessins De Maîtres Anciens Exposés À L'école Des Beaux-Arts Mai-Juin 1879. 2e Éd ed. Paris: Typ. G. Chamerot, 1879.

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