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    • My Wife's Lovers

    Painting by Carl Kahler

    My Wife's Lovers
    ArtistCarl Kahler 
    Dimensions1.8 m × 2.6 m (6 ft × 8.5 ft)
    Weight103 kg (227 lb)
    Commissioned byKate Birdsall Johnson 
    CollectionUnknown 

    [edit on Wikidata]

    My Wife's Lovers is a canvas painting by Austrian artist Carl Kahler (1856–1906) depicting forty-two of American millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson's Turkish Angora and Persian cats.[1][2] The title of the painting was potentially conceived by her husband,[3] who may have referred to the cats with the phrase.[4] Measuring 1.8 m × 2.6 m (6 ft × 8.5 ft), the canvas weighs 103 kg (227 lb).[5]

    History

    Some say Johnson owned 350 cats that she housed in her summer house Buena Vista near Sonoma, California, and left them US$500,000 in her will, but this is dispu