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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of The Butkin Foundation
Museum
The Monkey and the Cat
probably 1670s
Market Intelligence
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Evidence ranked
Provenance
Public1979-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1974-1979
The Butkin Foundation, Cleveland, OH, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1
c. 1968-1974
Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Cleveland, OH, probably by exchange to The Butkin Foundation
Until c. 1968
(Judson Art Galleries, Kenilworth, IL, sold to Noah Butkin)
Probably until the mid-1960s
(Central Picture Galleries, New York, sold to Judson Art Galleries)1
Source provenance text
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio The Butkin Foundation, Cleveland, OH, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1 Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Cleveland, OH, probably by exchange to The Butkin Foundation (Judson Art Galleries, Kenilworth, IL, sold to Noah Butkin) (Central Picture Galleries, New York, sold to Judson Art Galleries)1
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981). The Year in Review for 1979, The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 13 - March 9, 1980:, 	cat.no. 34, repr. (Bulletin, March 1980). A Cleveland Bestiary, The Cleveland Museum of Art, October 14 - December 9, 1981: cat. fig. 2l and p. 29.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
This picture interprets one of Aesop’s ancient Greek fables (or probably the more contemporary interpretation by Jean de la Fontaine, even more famous at the time), which warns of the dangers of flattery. A monkey sweet-talks a cat into pulling scalding chestnuts out of the fire. The cat finishes the risky and painful task to discover that the monkey has already gobbled up nearly all of them.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.
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