Cats in Art
Egyptian deity, Dutch kitchen thief, Japanese beauty's companion — the cat kept its independence even as a model.
471 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Cat
Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat
Courtiers in a Rose Garden: A Lady and Two Gentlemen
Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer, 1504
Ewer with a Feline-Shaped Handle
Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), 1787–88
The Chess Players
Thomas Eakins, 1876
Molly Wales Fobes
Rufus Hathaway, 1790
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham, 1845
猫図|Cat Seen from Behind
Kawabata Gyokushō, ca. 1887–92
Figure Dish
McKee and Brothers, 1880–90
Cats
Edouard Manet, 1868–69
A Cat Resting on All Fours, Seen from Behind
Edouard Manet, 1861
Wild Cat, from "Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages"
Jules Géruzet|Karl Bodmer|Bertauts, ca. 1860
Two Cats (from Sketchbook)
Francis William Edmonds, ca. 1838 and after
Netsuke of Cat
Cat
Whieldon type, ca. 1750
Cat
Box in the form of a cat
Luc Bouillerot|Saint-Cloud factory, ca. 1738
豊蔵坊信海筆 夢中の猫図|Dreaming Cat
Hōzōbō Shinkai, mid-17th century
明 佚名 貍奴芭蕉圖 冊頁|Frolicking Kittens under a Banana Tree
Unidentified artist, 15th century
Feline Ornament
Feline figure
Condorhuasi artist(s), 500 BCE–500 CE
Cat with image of Bastet on breast
Cat
Cat amulet
猫に蜘蛛図|Cat Watching a Spider
Oide Tōkō, ca. 1888–92
Teasing the Cat
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1888
Cat Catching a Frog
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎, ca. 1887
Cover for 'Nuevo Oraculo ó sea El Libro del Porvenír', an old women seated at a table and reading someone's fortune from cards
Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada, ca. 1880–1910
名所江戸百景 浅草田圃酉の町詣|Revelers Returned from the Tori no Machi Festival at Asakusa, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
Black Cat and Narcissus
Zhu Ling, 19th century
舞楽衣装『春雨集』 摺物帖|Costume for Bugaku Court DanceFrom the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, probably 1818 (Year of the Tiger)
A Woman and a Cat
Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1793–94
A Boy with a Cat—Morning
Thomas Gainsborough, 1787
Marble relief fragment
Sacred animal mummy of a cat
Box for animal mummy surmounted by a cat, inscribed
Indian Girl
Fritz Eichenberg|WPA, 1935–43
Jacquard-woven Picture
Anderson Brothers, ca. 1890
Le Singe et le chat
Félix Bracquemond|Gustave Moreau|Jean de La Fontaine|Boussod, Valadon and Co.|Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1886
Reverie
Matthys Maris, 1875
Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club
Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson, March 1, 1815
The Favourite Cat and De La-Tour Painter
John Kay|Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1813
Square
Two Young Women Wrapped in Yukata After a Bath
Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1796
The Five Senses
François Boucher|Gabriel Huquier, 1720–70