# Two Children Teasing a Cat [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARRACCI, Annibale]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 66 x 89 cm ## Commentary This picture, which may illustrate a proverb, is meant to convey a simple moral lesson about paying the consequences for our antics: the little girl will surely be scratched by the cat she and her brother are teasing. In painting this remarkable work, Annibale must have recalled <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/a/anguisso/sofonisb/crawfish.html'\)" HREF="/html/a/anguisso/sofonisb/crawfish.html">Sofonisba Anguissola's celebrated drawing,</A> which he unquestionably knew. ## Related artworks - [A Sea God Abducts a Woman \(detail\)]() - [A Sea God Abducts a Woman]() - [Assumption of the Virgin Mary]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Atlante]() - [Butcher's Shop \(detail\)]() - [Butcher's Shop]() - [Ceiling fresco]() - [Ceiling fresco]() - [Ceiling fresco]() - [Cephalus and Aurora]() - [Christ and the Woman of Samaria]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()