Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, stretcher bar with anchor stamp and canvas stenciled "40 M," presented in a period gilt frame.

Frame dimensions 32 x 46 in.

Charles Paillet is best known for his detailed bronze animal sculptures. This large scale impressionist style painting of a litter of playful kittens under the watch of their fluffy mother is the largest painting by Paillet to come to auction in decades.

Small paint flake to tail of mother cat; else in good estate condition with no evidence of restoration visible under UV light.