File:Jean-François Millet - The Cat at the Window, c1857–1858 - The J. Paul Getty Museum 96.gf.12.jpg
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Jean-François Millet: The Cat at the Window
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The Cat at the Window |
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| Object type | drawing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Le chat" or The Cat at the Window. This drawing illustrates "The Cat Who Became a Woman," a fable by the seventeenth-century French writer Jean de La Fontaine. In a wealth of tones hidden in deep shadows, Jean-François Millet evoked the story's haunting mystery.[1] |
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| Date | between circa 1857 and circa 1858 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | pastel on paper Conté crayon and pastel with stumping and blending, fixed, on wove paper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 498 mm (19.60 in); width: 394 mm (15.51 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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96.GF.12 |
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| Credit line | The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10:29, 19 June 2010 |  | 386 × 480 (59 KB) | Annielogue | {{Information |Description={{en|1=This black and white chalk drawing with occasional touches of colored pastel illustrates "The Cat Who Became a Woman," a fable by the seventeenth-century French writer Jean de La Fontaine.}} |Source=http://www.getty.edu/a |
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