Perspective Box of a Dutch Interior with Cats
Date:
1662/1663
Medium:
Oil paint, glass mirror and walnut
Dimensions:
11 1/8 × 16 9/16 × 11 15/16 inches (28.2 × 42 × 30.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund and Young Collectors Council
Object number:
35.101
Walnut, pentagonal, box fitted with a removable front in two sections. The upper section is fitted with a mirror. The lower section has hole through which the spectator views an interior of a Dutch home. The interior has a table in left foreground. The table is laden with plates, silverware, oysters, fruit and a glass. A cat is perched behind a wine glass. In the middleground there is a column at the right and the left. In the background a man and a woman stand to the left of an open doorway which leads out into a courtyard. Dog on bottom.
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