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Cats Alone (portraits of cats, figure studies of cats)

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Anonymous, Bestiary (also known as 'The Ashmole Bestiary') (with cats), fol. 035v, 1511

15th Century - 1

Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio di Giovanni de Cereto, known as Il), Three studies of a cat's head; eight studies of plants, c. 15th century

Pisanello, Dead Cat in Leaping Pose, nd, drawing, Louvre

Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio di Giovanni de Cereto, dit Il), Chat mort, étendu sur le fanc droit, disposé dans l'attitude du bond (Dead cat, lying on its right side, in a leaping position), c. 15th century

Leonardo, Studies of Cat and Dog, c. 1480-85, drawing, British Museum

16th Century

Parmigianino, Study of cat's and dog's skull, nd early 16th c, drawing, Louvre

Giorgio di Giovanni ("Giorgio da Siena"), Studies of a Gentian, Moth, Birds, Cats, Interlacing Motif, and Greek Frets (recto), 1530–40

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, Cat (Felis catus), c. 1596-1610 (likely 1600)

Federico Barocci, Study for a Cat, n.d. (possibly mid-16th century to early 17th century)

17th Century

Cornelis Bloemaert, After a lost painting by Hendrick Bloemaert, A Cat with a Mouse, c. 1625

Jacques Callot, Cat Watching Caged Bird, 1628

Wenceslaus Hollar, Head of a Cat (Middle Size), 1646

Hōzōbō Shinkai, Dreaming Cat, c. mid-17th century

Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat, 1657

Cornelis Saftleven, A cat peeping through a fence, 1666

Cat broadside, Haarlem, 1683, woodcut, widow of Michiel van Leeuwen, publ, British museum - 1 of a pair

Charles Le Brun workshop, Five studies of cat heads and two studies of eyes, 17th century (possibly 1670s)

Charles Le Brun (and workshop), Two studies of cat heads, n.d. (17th century - maybe 1670s)

Charles Le Brun, The relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation (with cats), 1671

Uto Gyoshi, Musk Cat, mid–late 16th century

18th Century