W.M Brady & Co.
- Stand 29
- 28 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021 | United-States
- www.wmbrady.com
W. M. Brady & Co., established in 1987 in New York, specializes in Old Master and 19th-century drawings and paintings, primarily of the Italian, French, and English schools.
The clientele of the gallery is international and consists of private collectors as well as museums. These include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Morgan Library & Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Institut Néerlandais, and the Louvre.
Jean-Jacques DE BOISSIEU
(Lyon 1736-1810 Lyon)
Head of a Cat Turned to the Left
Drawn circa 1803
Signed with the artist’s initials in ligature, lower right, DB.
Pen and grey and brown ink, grey wash; a ruled framing line in
8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches
210 x 140 mm
Provenance
Private collection, London, until 2025
This marvelous portrait of a cat is one of two known drawings by de Boissieu of the same subject. The other, on the market in 1994 and now in a New York collection, is drawn in identical media and similar scale (190 x 130 mm).
From the collection of Arthur Meyer (1846-1924), that drawing shows the cat facing frontally, while the present drawing depicts the same cat in slight profile turned to the left. In 1803, the artist made an etching with drypoint of a Cat and Kitten.
Our drawing and the one in the New York collection are likely to be datable to the same time.
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