{"product_id":"cat-catching-a-frog-kawanabe-kyosai","title":"Cat Catching a Frog - Kawanabe Kyōsai","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe cat is completely still — or rather, it has achieved the particular stillness that precedes an explosion. Back arched, weight forward, both front paws bracketing a frog that has nowhere to go. The yellow-green eyes are locked. The frog, caught mid-struggle, presses against the ground. Everything in the composition — the diagonal sweep of the bamboo and reeds above, the pale ground below — collapses toward this one point of contact between predator and prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis is Kawanabe Kyōsai at his most technically precise. Best known for his supernatural imagery and political satire, Kyōsai was equally capable of this: close, still, patient observation of the animal world rendered with brushwork so assured it seems almost effortless. The tabby's fur is built up stroke by stroke — the dark stripes, the paler belly, the individual hairs of the ear — while the background grasses and bamboo are suggested rather than rendered, sweeping across the upper half of the composition in broad, rapid ink marks. It is a virtuoso performance in two completely different registers within a single image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe work belongs to an album of studies dated to around 1887, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is one of several predator-prey compositions from this period — \u003cem\u003eFox Catching Bird\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePheasant Caught by a Snake\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBird and Frog\u003c\/em\u003e — in which Kyōsai returned repeatedly to the moment of capture: taut, concentrated, entirely free of sentiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (Japanese, 1831–1889)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod:\u003c\/strong\u003e Meiji period (1868–1912)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e ca. 1887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal medium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Album leaf; ink and colour on silk, 35.9 × 27 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCollection:\u003c\/strong\u003e Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Acc. 14.76.61.20)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eMuseum-quality reproduction printed on thick archival paper. Shipped in a rigid protective tube, ready to frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wallango","offers":[{"title":"A3","offer_id":54620633399619,"sku":"P6785S","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":54620633432387,"sku":"P6786S","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":54620633465155,"sku":"P6787S","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20\" x 30\" in","offer_id":54620633497923,"sku":"P6788S","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24\" x 36\" in","offer_id":54620633530691,"sku":"P6789S","price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"27\" x 40\" in","offer_id":54620633563459,"sku":"P6790S","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30x40 cm","offer_id":54620633596227,"sku":"P6791S","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm","offer_id":54620633628995,"sku":"P6792S","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm","offer_id":54620633661763,"sku":"P6793S","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3810\/2851\/files\/CatCatchingaFrog_KawanabeKyosaiMockupwallango_posterseul.jpg?v=1783600034","url":"https:\/\/wallango.com\/products\/cat-catching-a-frog-kawanabe-kyosai","provider":"Wallango ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}