A Concert of Cats (after Breughel)
attributed to Frances Annette Hoare (1822-1904)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
c. 1832
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
169 x 191 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730981
Summary
Graphite on paper, A Concert of Cats, attributed to Frances Annette Hoare (1822-1904), circa 1832, after a print by Jacques Couché, circa 1786, after Pieter Bruegel the elder (c.1525-1569). Possibly the original etched and engraved print with heavy graphite overdrawing. In a giltwood frame with a beaded inner border, with the engraved text previously forming the lower part of the print pasted to the backboard. In an album inscribed ‘Frances Annette Hoare / 15th August 1832 / The gift of her very affectionate Mother / on her tenth birthday’ (730409), the author has written 'In the “Orleans Collection” of pictures there was a fine painting of a “Concert of Cats” by P Breughel from which there is a print among the engravings of that gallery – The fixed attention of the feline performers is exceedingly amusing and by no means unnatural for it appears by the notes that mice is their theme, and they seem engaged in a catch –' A cutting of a print from the same series is pasted on the facing page. The print is from 'Galerie du Palais Royal,' a set of prints reproducing 354 works from the collection of the Duke of Orléans, published by Jacques Couché between 1786 and 1808 from preparatory drawings by Benoît Louis Prévost.
Provenance
Possibly drawn by Frances Annette Hoare (1822-1904), circa 1832. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
attributed to Frances Annette Hoare (1822-1904), artist after Jacques Couché (1750 - 1832/36), printer and publisher after Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Breda c.1525 - Brussels 1569), original artist