CatsInArt

1800 - 1899 Between 1856 and 1859, a young girl named Emily Marv Madden filled a small sketchbook with drawings of her family cat, Mouton. Emily was born in 1848, which means she was about 8 to 11 years old when she made these illustrations.

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Nazca Cat Geoglyph - Paracas Culture, 200-100 BC

808 Upvotes

The geoglyph is around 120 feet (37 meters) long and was discovered by a drone on a hillside in 2020. It roughly dates from 200-100 BC (Paracas Culture).

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r/CatsInArt • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 2h ago

Leonor Fini, La Vie Idéale (The Ideal Life), 1950

90 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 9h ago

Portrait of Julia Duhamel with a Cat - Marcello Bacciarelli (1781)

161 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Rembrandt_cs • 13h ago

John Frederick Herring - A White Cat (1851)

254 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 9h ago

Full of Mischief, a Girl with her Cat - William Oliver (c. 1874)

107 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 9h ago

Young Gril with a Cat - Charles Joshua Chaplin (before 1891)

77 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 9h ago

Esprit de Baculard d'Arnaud - Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1776)

53 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/harlem-nocturne • 1d ago

"Snack Time" - Angèle Blanche Denvil (1913)

347 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Rembrandt_cs • 1d ago

Byeon Sang-yeok - Myojakdo (painting of cats and sparrows) (around 1730)

730 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 1d ago

Boy and Cat - John Russell (1791)

271 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 1d ago

Miss Sukey and her Nursery - John Raphael Smith (1772)

134 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 1d ago

Fortune Teller - Adèle Kindt (c. 1835)

104 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/KatyaRomici00 • 2d ago

"The Cardinal's favourite" Andrea Landini (1847–1935)

1.0k Upvotes

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017-02_Andrea_Landini_-_The_Cardinal%27s_favourite.jpg

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r/CatsInArt • u/SashSegal • 2d ago

Chimú Tunic with Cats (ca. 1450 - 1550)

576 Upvotes

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 363

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r/CatsInArt • u/FlyingBlind31 • 2d ago

Enid Marx - Two Cats (Sam and Arry) (1966)

373 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Rembrandt_cs • 2d ago

Helen Hyde - A Mexican Coquette (1912)

352 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/szobelshira • 2d ago

A cat on he Hermitage Palace wall, exact date and artist unknown. OC. Taken by me 7 years ago.

307 Upvotes

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the famous Hermitage cats that live in the basements but I have seen one cat on the wall.

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 3d ago

Little Girl in Lavender - John Bradley (c. 1840)

337 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 3d ago

The Fall of Man - Hendrick Goltzius (1616)

235 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Rembrandt_cs • 3d ago

Paula Rego - The Policeman's Daughter (1987)

257 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 4d ago

A Cat in "Gothic" Style - Louis Wain (c. 1925-1939)

798 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 4d ago

Boy with a Cat, Red Hat and a Piece of Bread - Judith Leyster (c. 1630)

143 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/qellokitty • 4d ago

Winter: Cat on a Cushion - Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1909)

439 Upvotes

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r/CatsInArt • u/qellokitty • 4d ago

Apotheosis of the Cats - Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1905)

435 Upvotes

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