1894
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Kittens with game collected for the White Cat's supper is a 1894 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted *Kittens with game collected for the White Cat's supper* around 1894. It’s a watercolour, small and sweet. Potter studied animals closely, so her details feel true. She made this for fun before her Peter Rabbit books took off. It’s based on a fairy tale called *The White Cat* by the Countess d’Aulnoy. Look up the artist Beatrix Potter next.
An illustration on thin paper depicts two tabby kittens perched on a farmyard fence, examining the contents of a game bag. The drawing is one of four related to Beatrix Potter’s interpretation of the fairy tale *The White Cat* by the Countess d’Aulnoy, likely created during her 1894 visit to Camfield Place in Hertfordshire. Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1973 as part of the Linder Bequest, the work reflects Potter’s early illustrative style and her engagement with animal subjects.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.
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