My Wife's Lovers | Carl Kahler | 1891 Select Size:48" x 32" shadowed figure

shadowed figure

making their stillness pulse with unspoken narrative

almost regal figure of Caesar

"The Apparition" captivates with its ethereal beauty and invites contemplation of the divine and the unknown

embodying the futility expressed in the saying "to bang one's head against a brick wall

My Wife's Lovers | Carl Kahler | 1891 Select Size:48" x 32" shadowed figureAbout the artwork: My Wifes Lovers by Carl Kahler, painted in 1891, is one of the most extravagant and humorous tributes to feline adoration in art history. Commissioned by San Francisco millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson, the painting features more than forty of her prized Persian and Angora cats, arranged in a grand, almost regal composition. Kahler, originally a painter of racehorses and society portraits, took on the challenge after reportedly