The White Cat | acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 24” x 23”

Scene from the French fairy tale The White Cat, written by Countess d’Aulnoy in 1698, in which a prince joins a hunting party led by a charming cat princess:

“He looked out into the courtyard, and saw more than five hundred cats, some of whom led hounds in the leash, others sounded the horn; it was a great fête. White Cat was going hunting and wished the prince to join her. The helpful hands gave him a wooden horse, which galloped at full speed, and stepped grandly. He made some difficulty about mounting, saying that he was far from being a knight-errant like Don Quixote; but his resistance was of no avail, and he was put on the wooden horse. It had housings and saddle of gold and diamond embroidery. White Cat was mounted on the handsomest and finest monkey ever seen. She did not wear her long veil, but a dragoon hat, which lent her such a determined expression that all of the mice in the neighborhood were in terror...Never was there a pleasanter hunt.”

— The Fairy Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy, Newly Done Into English