print
- Museum number
- 1858,0417.1198
- Title
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Series: Cabinet du Duc de Choiseul
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Series: Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul
- Description
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Plate 52: Children with a cat and a birdcage; a boy wearing a feathered hat at right and teasing a cat by placing a bird back in its cage, another boy at right holding the cat; seen through an arched window; after Adriaen van der Werff
Etching
- Production date
- 1770-1772 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Width: 147 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Plate 52 from 'Cabinet du Duc de Choiseul', see 1858,0417.1109 for comment. Companion piece to 'Boy with a mousetrap', see 1858,0417.1197.
After a 1679 painting by Adriaen van der Werff now lost; see Barbara Gaehtgens, 'Adriaen van der Werff 1659-1722', Munich, 1987, cat.no.11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0417.1198