(German, 1863-1906)
Sophie Sperlich was a well-known artist in Munich, her home town. Although not much information is available about her, she was a popular artist painting both dogs and cats. Her paintings are in the same style as those of Julius Adam and Henriette Ronner-Knip. Many of her works were used as postcard illustrations.
More cats: https://artvee.com/artist/sophie-sperlich/
For a brief second I thought this was a picture of those realistic cakes people were doing for awhile back when and just went “mhm cute cat cakes” before realizing no. Painting.
I thought it was a journeyman level digital painting 😅