Concerning Cats 



realism of Burbank's pictures, which were reproduc- 

 tions of sleek and handsome drawing-room pets, whose 

 shining coats he brings out with remarkable precision. 



The ill-fated Swiss artist Cornelius Wisscher's 

 marvellous tom-cat has become typical. 



Delacroix, the painter of tigers, was a man of 

 highly nervous temperament, but his cat sketches 

 bring out too strongly the tigerish element to be 

 altogether successful. 



Louis Eugene Lambert was a pupil of Delacroix. 

 He was born in Paris, September 25, 1825, and the 

 chief event of his youth was, perhaps, the great 

 friendship which existed between him and Maurice 

 Sands. Entomology was a fad with him for a time, 

 but he finally took up his serious life-work in 1854, 

 when he began illustrating for the Journal of Agri- 

 culture. In connection with his work, he began to 

 study animals carefully, making dogs his specialty. 

 In 1862 he illustrated an edition of La Fontaine, and 

 in 1865 he obtained his first medal for a painting of 

 dogs. In 1866 his painting of cats, " L'Horloge 

 qui avance," won another medal, and brought his 

 first fame as a cat painter. In 1874 he was made a 

 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. His " Envoi " in 

 1874, " Les Chats du Cardinal," and " Grandeur 

 DecUne" brought more medals. Although he has 

 painted hosts of excellent dog pictures, cats are his 

 favorites, on account, as he says, of " les formes fines 

 et gracieux; mouvements, souple et subtil." 



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