Two cats playing with a measuring tape- Charles Van den Eycken (1859 -1923)

Oil on panel

Signed and dated lower left: "Ch. Van den Eycken, 1917."

Charles van den Eycken, sometimes known as Duchêne, was a well-known Belgian painter specializing in pictures of interiors, dogs and cats.e first was a pupil of his father. He subsequently studied with Joseph Stevens, a realist animal painter, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He later also studied at the Academy of Louvain. From 1881 he exhibited regularly in the Salons of Brussels, Liège, Ghent and Antwerp, as well as in the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. He painted several pictures for Queen Marie-Henriette of Belgium. He was a member of the artist group "l'Essor" and obtained several medals