On Cats by Jacques Dalbray
Medium
Color lithograph illustration with letterpress
Dimensions
39.5 × 58.2 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer
Accession Number
2016.247
Tags
male
About this artwork
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, artis...