Girl with Cat

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Artist Unknown

Title Girl with Cat

Date Mid-19th century

Medium Watercolor and enamel on vellum

Dimensions Overall: 2 5/16 x 1 7/8 in. (5.9 x 4.8 cm)

Credit Line Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 98.168.5

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Miniature portraits, first popular in the Renaissance, enjoyed a golden age in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the advent of photography. Intimate in scale, they were often worn as jewelry or carried in a pocket. Photography made such personal portraits inexpensive and accessible to a wide audience, driving the miniature painter into obsolescence.

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"Girl with Cat | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=98.168.5