print
- Museum number
- 1888,0612.1432
- Description
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A still life with a table, a cat lying on top of it and playing with an open inkpot that smudged several pieces of paper, a candle on the left, a pile of books on the right, another inkpot and a quill pen at the back of the table, on the left a painting on the wall with a woman holding a paper bird in front of a real bid and a girl accompanied by her parents regarding the scene with amusement, on the right several notes attached to the wall; after Edouard van den Bosch
Etching with surface tone
- Production date
- 1875 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Width: 258 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression see 1888,0612.1431.
Edouard van den Bosch has made an oil painting with the same image, called Le chat s'amuse, in 1875. This painting is currently in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1888,0612.1432