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Gabriel Alexandre Decamps
French, 1803–1860
Cat, Weasel, and Rabbit
1836
This painting is based on a fable by Jean de La Fontaine in which a rabbit and a weasel ask a cat to settle an argument, only to be devoured by their would-be judge. Decamps made a number of paintings depicting scenes from La Fontaine’s fables, though in this case the narrative is less important than the naturalistic depiction of the animals and the forest setting.
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (24.1 x 34.3 cm)
Frame: 18 7/8 x 23 x 3 1/8 in. (47.9 x 58.4 x 7.9 cm)
Object Number
1955.699
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Image Caption
Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, Cat, Weasel, and Rabbit, 1836, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.699
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956.
Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Dewey F. Mosby. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860, 2 vol.. Ph.D. diss. Harvard, 1973. New York: Garland.. 1977..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Salomon Goldschmidt (until 1888, his sale, Georges Petit, Paris, 17 May 1888, no. 7, as Le Chat, Le Lapin et La Belette); George I. Seney, New York (until 1891, his sale, American Art Association, New York, 11–13 Feb. 1891, no. 237, sold to Knoedler); [Knoedler, New York, from 1891]; William Albert Slater, Washington (by 1894, d. 1919); [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 1 June 1922]; Robert Sterling Clark (1922–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
