About the Artwork
Felina with a Kitten
1788
Joshua Reynolds
1723-1792
English
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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
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.
Northcote, J. The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2nd ed., vol. 2. London, 1819, p. 349.
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.
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, 1856, pp. 196, 235-250.
Waagen. Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britian. London, 1857, p. 371, no. 18.
Leslie, C. and T. Taylor. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, vol. 2. London, 1865, pp. 516-519.
Stephens, F.G. Catalogue of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Exh. cat., Grosvenor Gallery. London, 1883, p. 46, no. 92.
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, pp. 147, 191 [in 1874 ed. was p. 111].
Stephens, F. English Children as Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2nd ed. London, 1884, p. 78.
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].
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. London, 1899, vol. 3, pp. 1121-1122, pp. 1152-1153; 1901, vol. 4, 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, p. 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, pp. 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, p. xvi, (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. 149-151, (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.
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