The Cat's Lunch
Marguerite Gérard, c. 1800
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA woman serves her cat lunch from a porcelain saucer, in Gérard's polished Dutch-revival manner. One of the first great paintings to treat feeding a cat as an event worthy of fine art.
- Maker
- Marguerite Gérard
- Date
- c. 1800
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Musée Fragonard, Grasse
- Credit
- Musée Fragonard, Grasse · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01853
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 807 x 1,024 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 15, lights 171 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.33
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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