Yes, I’ve seen the painting previously, just not so I could zoom in on all facets, which is how I spied those huge toes! It’s interesting that artists of all nationalities and races depict the biblical characters as being peculiar to their own era and place: hairstyles, garments—dressed in their style of clothing, and room settings, while totally ignoring details that might have actually been true.
Lol! Yes, I saw the cat; its head and facial characteristics also appear to me to be too small for its body.
Zoom in to the shelf. On the far right side, just to the left of the vertical woodwork, is a little critter. The tail looks too long to be a mouse or rat; nor do the color, nor head size appear to be a rodent. The head looks like a tiny, tiny kitten’s head, and the body color and length, plus tail length, are consistent with a tiny, but long, kitten. Even so, it’s a peculiar size, and in a peculiar position to be a kitten—but it doesn’t look like a rodent, either. Any suggestions?
Edited to Add: Since I’ve seen your close-up in Post #4980, below, I definitely think it’s a young cat, or older kitten, and that a mouse, partially seen to the left, near the bottom of the young cat’s tail, is playing “Cat and Mouse”—Lol! Am thinking that the artisan carpenters who worked on such places as that depicted would never have left a blob mistake like that. Thank you for the enlargement! Great picture. I’ll bet that artist Lotto never thought anyone would be exclaiming about his work more than 350 years after he created it.
