"The greedy cat passing through the fabric to eat the herrings" A5 notebook

Plain paper. A5 (14.5 x 21 cm). 100 sheets (200 pages).

On the occasion of the exhibition On the Reverse, held at the Museo Nacional del Prado from 7 November 2023 to 3 March 2024, the magnificent work reproduced in this beautiful notebook is presented to the public: The greedy cat passing through the fabric to eat the herrings (ca. 1800), by Louis-Léopold Boilly, from the Collection Farida et Henri Seydoux, in Paris. This artist produced numerous paintings in the genre of the "studio corner", which is composed of still lifes of drawings, engravings and artistic instruments, and on this occasion he used the fiction of a tear in the canvas, which he presents on the reverse side.