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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 10484564, member: 2844"]Probably this one or one of Grünewald's other cats. He was an excellent artist who painted mainly cats. </p><p>Grünewald's cats were hugely popular in Europe, just like the more sentimental cat paintings by Dutch painter Henriëtte Ronner-Knip. I didn't even know Grünewald's "Sleeping Kitten" was known as Chessie across the pond. I hope they paid him or his descendants, but I guess that wasn't a thing in those days, and Austria was a world away.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 10484564, member: 2844"]Probably this one or one of Grünewald's other cats. He was an excellent artist who painted mainly cats. Grünewald's cats were hugely popular in Europe, just like the more sentimental cat paintings by Dutch painter Henriëtte Ronner-Knip. I didn't even know Grünewald's "Sleeping Kitten" was known as Chessie across the pond. I hope they paid him or his descendants, but I guess that wasn't a thing in those days, and Austria was a world away.;)[/QUOTE]
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