id: 149770 accession number: 1979.82 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.82 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:44.558000 The Monkey and the Cat, probably 1670s. Abraham Hondius (Dutch, c. 1625–1695). Oil on canvas; framed: 80 x 93.5 x 6 cm (31 1/2 x 36 13/16 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 62.2 x 73.7 cm (24 1/2 x 29 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Butkin Foundation 1979.82 title: The Monkey and the Cat title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: probably 1670s creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1679 current location: creditline: Gift of The Butkin Foundation copyright: --- culture: Netherlands technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Abraham Hondius (Dutch, c. 1625–1695) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 80 x 93.5 x 6 cm (31 1/2 x 36 13/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 62.2 x 73.7 cm (24 1/2 x 29 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: "Abraham Hondius" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-15T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Year in Review for 1979, The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 13 - March 9, 1980:, cat.no. 34, repr. (Bulletin, March 1980).', 'opening_date': '1980-02-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'A Cleveland Bestiary, The Cleveland Museum of Art, October 14 - December 9, 1981: cat. fig. 2l and p. 29.', 'opening_date': '1981-10-14T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1979- footnotes: citations: The Butkin Foundation, Cleveland, OH, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1 date: 1974-1979 footnotes: *
1 According to a letter from Norman A. Sugarman, president of The Butkin Foundation, to CMA director Sherman Lee, the Foundation acquired the painting in 1974 in exchange for two other works, both of which are unnamed in the letter.  Noah Butkin presumably was the other party in this arrangement.
citations: Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Cleveland, OH, probably by exchange to The Butkin Foundation date: c. 1968-1974 footnotes: citations: (Judson Art Galleries, Kenilworth, IL, sold to Noah Butkin) date: Until c. 1968 footnotes: citations: (Central Picture Galleries, New York, sold to Judson Art Galleries)1 date: Probably until the mid-1960s footnotes: *
1 Central Picture Galleries was owned and operated by dealers Jan and Oscar Klein.  There are no extant records for the gallery.  The provenance of the painting before it was with Central Picture Galleries remains unknown. There was a Hondius of similar subject matter in the sale of the collection of Lady North at Sotheby’s, London, on July 11, 1945 (no. 151).  Although the painting’s post-sale and current whereabouts are unknown, Alfred Hentzen’s description of the painting (“Abraham Hondius,” Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunsthalle VIII, 1963, 39-40) as depicting a “monkey and cat fighting over a deal fowl” indicates it is not the CMA painting.  
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Norman A. Sugarman, letter to Sherman Lee, Aug. 29, 1979, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Harry Judson Moore, phone conversation with Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 13, 2014. page number: url: Harry Judson Moore, phone conversation with Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 13, 2014. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 242; Mentioned: p. 243 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 34, p. 66; Mentioned: p. 60 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 27; Mentioned: p. 21, p. 61 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.82/1979.82_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.82/1979.82_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.82/1979.82_full.tif