Showing posts with label art history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art history. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Cat Thursday - Cats in art (46)

Welcome to the twice a month (on the second and fourth Thursday) feature that celebrates the wonders and often hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite cat meme you may have come across, famous cat art, or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! If you would like to join in, share the link to your post with your comment below.


Girl with Cat


Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
1902

Honorable Mr. Cat


Helen Hyde, born Lima, NY 1868-died Pasadena, CA 1919
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Hyde Gillette in memory of Mabel Hyde Gillette and Edwin Fraser Gillette
1903

Cat in Eakins's Yard


Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
(c. 1880-1890)

Mary Elizabeth Francis, the Artist's Daughter


John F. Francis, born Philadelphia, PA 1808-died Jeffersonville, PA 1886
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift in memory of Grace Brereton Sturtevant, the artist's great niece
ca. 1840


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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Cat Thursday - Cats in Art (44) A Miscellany


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

I can't believe it has been a year since I've done a cats in art post! Long overdue. 


Winter: Cat on a Cushion
Date: 1909
Artist: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923


Three cats watching fish in an aquarium
1938 - Copson, Clyde A.


Two Little Fraid Cats
1863
Currier & Ives, publ., American

The Cats’ Rendezvous
1868
Artist: Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883


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Thursday, April 23, 2020

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (43) Leonora Carrington


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.


Les Chats, 1940


Warning Mother



Cats, 1953


Transference (detail) 1963


Three Cats

Leonora Carrington was featured in Authors and Cats this month. Check out the post here, where she's pictured with cats of her own. A true cat lover. 


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Thursday, January 30, 2020

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (42) Pieter Boel


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

17th century art featuring cats by Pieter Boel (1626–1674), a Flemish painter who specialized in lavish still life and animal paintings.

Pieter Boel Moved To Paris In Order To Paint 
The Animals In The Newly Established Zoo Of Louis Xiv

Spring cattle with a cat and a rabbit

Erlegte Singvögel mit Katze




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Thursday, August 22, 2019

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (41) Jean-Jacques Bachelier


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

Jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724–1806) was a French painter and director of the porcelain factory at Sèvres.

Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1752, he founded an art school using his own means in Paris in 1765 for the artisans in the historic collège d'Autun (rue de l'école de médecine), which survived until the 19th century. (read more on Wikipedia)

An Angora Cat

Cat near a niche and a Chinese bowl

Mousetrap with Cat and Kittens in Basket

Still life with rabbit, cat and fruits




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Thursday, June 6, 2019

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (40) Julius Adam II


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

Julius Adam II (1852-1913, German) painted a TON of cat paintings! I just read that he was known as "Cats Adam." Appropriate! I will have to do several parts to feature his art. I'll revisit him again in a future post.

Entre Nous (self portrait with kittens)


Five Kittens


Portrait of a Cat


The Blue Bow


The Two Friends




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Thursday, May 2, 2019

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (39) Mary Cassatt


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

Since Mother's Day is coming up in less than two weeks, I thought I would feature Mary Cassatt who was known for her mother and child scenes. Sometimes these scenes featured cats. Art scholars believe their presence in her paintings were to accentuate the idea of motherhood and domesticity...or perhaps she just liked cats. Enjoy!

Children Playing with a Cat 1908

Ellen Holding a Cat Looking Left

Sara Holding a Cat 1908

Young woman wearing a small winged hat holding a cat 1914

Robert Holding a Cat 1882


Reine Lefebvre With Blond Baby 
And Sara Holding A Cat




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Thursday, March 28, 2019

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (38) 16th Century, Ulisse Aldrovandi


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.


Black Cat - 16th Century

Cat on Ledge with Mouse and Fruit - c. 1580


Seated Cat - 16th Century

'Wild Cat' from Natura Picta



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