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<objecttitle>La dame avec son chat</objecttitle>
<artistname>MARGUERITE GÉRARD (Grasse 1761 - Paris
1837)</artistname>
<longdescription>Signed lower left Mle Gerard br br>Oil on
panel br>12 ¾ x 9 ¿ in. (32.4 x 24.5 cm.)<br br>The
sitter, an elegant young woman, is dressed in a fashionable gown
with her hair carefully curled, she also wears a pair of graceful
yet modest pearl earrings which all together attest to her wealth
and social status. She is seated at a table upon which a large
white cat rests; with its slightly tilted head and direct gaze,
it is a charming example of comfortable domesticity, as is its
mistress. Specialising in genre scenes and portraiture, Gérard’s
paintings represent an idealised view of contemporary bourgeois
life in the private sphere occupied by women. Her subjects are
wives and mothers, often accompanied by children, servants, or –