The Cats

Édouard Manet (published by Alfred Strölin (Swiss, 19th-20th centuries))

1868–69

Medium

Etching and aquatint with plate tone in warm black on cream laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Image: 17.3 × 21.8 cm (6 13/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Plate: 18 × 22.6 cm (7 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 29 × 41.1 cm (11 7/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

Culture

France

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings

Credit line

Anonymous gift

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Impressionism
• Prints
• Animals
• 1800s
• France
• Orange