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My Wife’s Lovers
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Carl Kahler
Forty-two cats rendered at near life size by Carl Kahler in 1891, My Wife’s Lovers is a hand-painted replica built to hold a wall on its own scale.
Description
Description
A wall holding forty-two cats at nearly life size changes how a room feels, turning a hallway or a study into something closer to a private menagerie. This My Wife’s Lovers reproduction brings that scale indoors, suited to a room with the ceiling height and wall space to let the composition breathe, a library, a stairwell, or a den where guests have time to look.
About My Wife's Lovers Reproduction
Painted in 1891 for the San Francisco heiress Kate Birdsall Johnson, the canvas gathers her Turkish Angora and Persian cats across a Persian carpet, draped against pale pink silk. The animals cluster in loose groups, some curled in sleep, others upright and watching a moth cross the upper register of the picture. Kahler worked from direct observation of each cat, and the result reads less as a decorative arrangement than as a group portrait, every animal distinct in colouring, posture, and temperament.
The painting belongs to the late academic tradition that prized exact rendering of surface and fur, silk, and woven carpet over visible gesture, and Kahler, trained in Vienna and Munich before settling in San Francisco, brought that training to a subject few academic painters would have attempted at this scale. The pale pink backdrop sets off the warm browns and greys of the cats and the deep reds of the carpet, and the light falls evenly across the group rather than dramatizing any single animal, which keeps attention moving from cluster to cluster.
The hand-painted reproduction
This oil painting reproduction is painted by hand, not printed, by artists who work from high-resolution reference images of the original and build the surface in layered oil pigment to match its palette and texture. The dense fur of each cat, the sheen of the silk drape, and the weave suggested in the carpet are worked back into the canvas stroke by stroke, so the hand-painted replica carries the same density of detail and the same balance of warm and cool colour as the 1891 original, rather than a flattened copy of it.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a print
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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