My Wife's Lovers | Carl Kahler | 1891 Select Size:48" x 32" "The Apparition" captivates with its

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

and is considered one of the most analyzed and celebrated paintings in Western art history

flat colors and simplified forms

using deep shadows and radiant highlights to evoke a sense of awe and divine interruption

My Wife's Lovers | Carl Kahler | 1891 Select Size:48" x 32" "The Apparition" captivates with itsAbout 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