Felina with a Kitten

Joshua Reynolds English, 1723-1792
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Felina with a Kitten

1788

Joshua Reynolds

1723-1792

English

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 30 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (76.8 × 63.8 cm) Framed: 40 × 35 × 3 1/2 inches (101.6 × 88.9 × 8.9 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

F71.68

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

May 18, 1821, sale of Lady Thomond collection by (Christie's, London, England), lot 64

May 18, 1821, purchased by Lord Normanton

by descent to heirs

1934, sold to (Duveen, London, England)

by 1939, Mrs. Anna Dodge Dilman [1867-1970] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, the Twentieth. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1788, no. 378.

Catalogue of Pictures by the Late Sir Joshua Reynolds, Exhibited by the Permission of the Proprietors in Memory of That Distinguished Artist, and for the Improvement of British Art. Exh. cat., British Institution. London, 1813, no. 41.

Catalogue of Pictures of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and English Schools, with Which the Proprietors Have Favoured the Institution. Exh. cat., British Institution. London, 1824, no. 145.

Northcote, J. The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2nd ed., vol. 2. London, 1819, p. 349.

Wheatley, E. A Descriptive Catalogue of Prints, with the Engravers' Names and Dates, Which Have Been Engraved from Original Portraits and Pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds. London, 1825, p. 53.

Cotton, W. Sir Joshua Reynolds, and His Works. London: Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., 1856, p. 196, 235-250.

Waagen. Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britian. London, 1857, p. 371, no. 18.

Leslie, C. & T. Taylor. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, vol. 2. London, 1865, pp. 516-19.

Stephens, F.G. Catalogue of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Exh. cat., Grosvenor Gallery. London, 1883, p. 46, no. 92.

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, Including a Collection of Water-Colour Drawings by Joseph M.W. Turner, R.A. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1887, no. 22 [Winter Exhibition].

Hamilton, E. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., from 1755 - 1822, with a Description of the Different States of Each Plate, a Biographical Sketch of Each Person, and a List of the Pictures from which the Engravings Were Taken with Dates of Paintings, Names of Possesors and other Particulars. London, 1884, p. 147, 191 [in 1874 ed. was p. 111].

Stephens, F. English Children as Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2nd ed. London: Remington and Co., 1884, p. 78.

Redford, G. Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works of Art, with Notices of Collections Sold, Names of Owners, Titles of Pictures, Prices and Purchasers, Arranged under the Artists of the DIfferent Schools in Order of Date, vol. 2. 1888, p. 102.

Phillips, Claude. Sir Joshua Reynolds. London, 1894, p. 351.

Graves, Algernon and William Cronon. A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, vol. 3. London, 1899, pp. 1121-22, 1152-3.

Graves, Algernon and William Cronon. A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, vol. 4, 1901, p. 1659.

Armstrong, W. Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy. London and New York, 1900, p. 239.

Baldry, A. L. Sir Joshua Reynolds. London and New York, 1903, xiv.

Roldit, M. "The Collection of Pictures of the Earl of Normanton, at Somerley, Hampshire. I. Pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds," Burlington Magazine 2 (July 1903): pp. 217-218, (repr.).

Graves, A. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Works from Its Foundation in 1769 to 1904, vol. 6. London, 1905-06, p. 276.

Graves, A. A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, vol. 2. 1913-15, p. 1020, 1028, 1063.

Graves, A. Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, (Mostly Old Master and Early English Pictures), vol. 3. 1918-21, p. 9.

Wind, E. "Humanitätsidee und heroisiertes Porträt in der englischen Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts," Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg 9 (1931): p. 194, pl. 17, no. 50.

A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1939, xvi, n.p., (repr.).

Waterhouse, E. Reynolds. London, 1941, p. 80.

"Collector's Questions," Country Life (December 1965): pp. 1724-1725, (repr.).

Waterhouse, E. Reynolds. 1973, p. 182.

Penny, Nicholas. Reynolds. Exh. cat., The Royal Academy of Arts. London, 1986, p. 33.

Prochno, R. Joshua Reynolds. Weinheim, 1990, pp. 149-51, (fig. 126).

Postle, M. Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures. Cambridge, 1995, p. 112.

Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of 18th Century French and English Art in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, pp. 219-223, cat. 68, (repr.) [entry by H. Faberman].

Mannings, David. Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings. New Haven, 2000, vol. I, p. 535, no. 2086; vol. II (plates): p. 600, no. 1636 [note that Mannings forgot to list this with the other 4 DIA paintings in his index; he also here incorrectly lists the DIA as "Detroit Institute of Fine Arts"].

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Joshua Reynolds, Felina with a Kitten, 1788, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, F71.68.

Felina with a Kitten
Felina with a Kitten