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Edwin Landseer: The Cat's Paw  wikidata:Q20891270 reasonator:Q20891270
Artist
Edwin Landseer  (1802–1873)  wikidata:Q328369
 
Edwin Landseer
Description British painter, sculptor, architectural draftsperson and etcher
Date of birth/death 7 March 1802 Edit this at Wikidata 1 October 1873 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q328369
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Title
The Cat's Paw
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description

In Jean de La Fontaine's seventeenth-century fable, which this painting illustrates, a cunning monkey persuades a cat to retrieve roasting chestnuts from a fire. The term "cat's paw," meaning a person unwittingly duped by another, derives from this tale.

Numerous engraved and painted precedents for the brutality of Landseer's interpretation existed in the work of seventeenth-century Dutch and British illustrators of La Fontaine. The fabulist's symbolic use of animals to describe the tribulations of human existence became popular among nineteenth-century romantic painters and satirists.
Date circa 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 30 × 27.1 in (76.2 × 68.8 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q1700481
Current location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Accession number
82.47
Place of creation England Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Gift of Dr. Roger L. Anderson in memory of Agnes Lynch Anderson
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