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**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · 6d *

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

A belated #cat for #Caturday and an early #snail for a #SlowSunday :
Cat in a snail shell from the Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht (‘The Maastricht Hours’), Stowe MS 17 f.185
Netherlands, S. (Liège), 1st quarter 14th c.
British Library collection
#CatsInArt #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalMarginalia

medieval marginalia: illustration of a grey cat head with orange antennae and whiskers poking out of a snail shell with orange - red - black - white coloration, perched on the end of a blue curved ornamentation, with a bit of text visible to upper left (cropped)

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · May 4

May 4

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Carl Reichert (Austrian, 1836–1918)
#Cats and the #Cockatoo, 1898
Oil on panel, H 47.5 x W 30.5 cm
Private collection
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Reichert_-_Cats_and_the_cockatoo,_1898.jpg
#CatsInArt #BirdsInArt #Parrot

Oil painting in a long vertical composition depicting a well-lit room (sun appearing to come in from a window on left edge) with house plants on a checkered tile floor and a group of four cats (2 grey and white tabby, 1 calico, 1 white with a pink bow) looking up at a white cockatoo high above on its perch, who in turn is looking down at them below, crest up with an animated expression. Also visible are bits of leaves and flowers on the floor, perhaps from the cats' shenanigans (the white cat with the pink bow is sitting in one of the potted plants).

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Apr 27

Apr 27

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday:
Jean Metzinger (France, 1883-1956)
Homme assis au chat (Seated Man with #Cat ), 1917-18
Oil on canvas, 12 3/5 x 16 1/10 in.
On display at Nassau County Museum of Art NY
#CatsInArt #Cubism

photo: closeup of the cat in the painting, black / grey / white in seated face forward pose

photo of artwork in in gold lined white mat on display at museum - Jean Metzinger “Seated Man with Cat” oil painting in landscape orientation, colorful Cubist composition, cat in lower right

gallery label: “Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) Homme assis au chat (Seated Man with Cat), 1917-18 Oil on canvas 12 3/5 x 16 1/10 inches Collection of Arlene and Arthur S. Levine French painter and theorist Jean Metzinger contributed to the promotion of Cubism to the general public, more so than his contemporaries Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. He combined the Pointillist technique of Georges Seurat and Henri- Edmond Cross with the colorful Fauve aesthetic of Henri Matisse and Andre Derain, producing innovative compositions with modeled forms and multiple angles. Metzinger passionately advocated against traditional artistic approaches in such publications as Du cubisme (On Cubism), which he wrote with Albert Gleizes. Through his writing, he became one of the foremost theoreticians of the new avant-garde language, laying the theoretic foundations for Cubism. Through such paintings as this colorful composition, Metzinger captured a sense of pictorial dynamism and explored multiple perspectives, helping to bring about a shift in attitudes toward avant-garde art. ACM”

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Apr 20

Apr 20

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Sekino Jun'ichirō (Japan, 1914-1988)
Siamese Cat and Kitten, 1959
Woodblock print; ink & color on paper, 42.6 x 55 cm (16 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 60.217:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/267401
#CatsInArt #JapaneseArt

color woodblock print in landscape orientation depicting a mother Siamese cat sitting with her single kitten, who is tucked behind her back leg with its head peeking out; they appear to be lounging on a red and grey blanket, and the wall behind them is an even brighter red print is stamped/signed/dated/numbered in lower right corner

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Apr 13

Apr 13

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Enni Id (Finland, 1904-1992)
Kissat (#Cats ), 1976
Oil painting, 60x75 cm
#WomenArtists #CatsInArt
https://www.hagelstam.fi/enni-id-1

painting of three black and white tuxedo cats sitting in a row surrounded by large colorful flowers, landscape orientation in wooden frame self-taught artist, categorized as “naïve art” and folk art; cats and flowers are common motifs

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Apr 12

Apr 12

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#BookRecommendation for #NationalPetDay:
Artists and Their #Cats by Alison Nastasi (2015)
https://amzn.to/3zSysnw
via #AmazonAssociates
#CatsInArt

**Rosalie Gilbert** @Rosaliesmedievalwoman@pixelfed.social · Apr 7

Apr 7

Rosalie Gilbert @Rosaliesmedievalwoman@pixelfed.social

Book Launch Day for "The Secret Lives of Single Medieval Women" at the Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology this Saturday. It's a non fiction book by Yours Truly.

#singlemedievalwomen #newrelease #history #historybook #womenshistory #truestories #women #medievalrosalie #medievalwoman #realwomen #medievalhistory #middleages #medieval #moyenage #catlady #catsinart #singlelife #singlewomen

#singlewomen

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Mar 29

Mar 29

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Grace Hudson (USA, 1865–1937)
Punahele (No. 197), 1901
Oil on board, 8 x 5 in.
On display at Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA (2014-6-1)
“Punahele is Hawaiian for ‘pet,’ or ‘favorite.’ Grace sometimes implied more than one meaning in her titles, and it is possible that here ‘Punahele’ refers both to the girl and to the pets she holds.“
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists

photo of the painting in gold frame on display at museum portrait of a native Hawaiian child in red and yellow striped clothing holding two grey and white cats (one under each arm) outdoors amongst tall grasses

photo of the gallery label: “Punahele 1901 (No. 197) Oil on Board Gift from John Marcucci honoring his mother, Helene Marcucci (Accession No. 2014-6-1) Punahele is Hawaiian for "pet," or "favorite." Grace sometimes implied more than one meaning in her titles, and it is possible that here "Punahele" refers both to the girl and to the pets she holds. Hudson began this work in Hilo, and exhibited it in Honolulu when she returned there in the fall of 1901. It also was exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a World's Fair held in Seattle in 1909.”

**Anne Fisher** @AnneTheWriter1@pixelfed.social · Mar 16

Mar 16

Anne Fisher @AnneTheWriter1@pixelfed.social

Reminder to myself:
Focus more on JOY.

#Caturday #Cats #CatsInArt #PixelCats #Catstodon #Joyful #CatsOfTheFediverse #Positivity #ChooseJoy #Artwork

Watercolor-style image showing an orange tabby cat, sitting in a field of tall grass and tiny wildflowers. The very happy cat is wearing a large blue bow on his neck. He is facing skyward with his eyes shut, and smiling wide.

Meme text reads "Today, I choose joy."

#artwork

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Mar 9

Mar 9

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (German, 1886-1930)
Katze mit Kakteenblüte I (#Cat and Cactus Flower I), 1921
Oil on panel, laminated on board
82 x 57 cm. (32.28 x 22.44 in.)
https://www.kettererkunst.com/details-e.php?obnr=411202307&anummer=400
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists

German modernist oil painting, portrait of a slender black & white cat sitting amongst potted plants smelling a large orange cactus flower “Katze mit Kakteenblüte I. 1921. monogrammed & dated lower right elegant as well as tender portrait of a cat PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany” “Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen was a German avant-garde painter. She was a teacher in Schleswig until 1910 when she married the Hamburg architect and painter Emil Maetzel. As a married woman, she was no longer allowed to work as a teacher in the Wilhelminian Empire and had to give up the job. She gave birth to four children: Ruth 1911, Bogumil 1913, Peter 1915, and Monika 1917. After the war, together with her husband, Maetzel-Johannsen was one of the co-founders of the Hamburg Secession. Maetzel-Johannsen died on February 8, 1930 at the age of 44 years after an operation for heart weakness.” bio info via https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2032601100358102&id=100064711957701

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Mar 1

Mar 1

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

As #FishFriday ends and #Caturday gets ready to take over…
Horatio Henry Couldery (UK, 1832 - 1893)
#Cats by a Fishbowl, n.d.
Oil on canvas 45.5 x 61 cm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horatio_Henry_Couldery_-_Cats_by_a_fishbowl.jpg
#CatsInArt

painting in landscape orientation, three orange and black striped cats (perhaps mother and two kittens, one with red bowed collar) sitting on a table with a red tablecloth, staring at a glass fishbowl with goldfish to their left (on left end of composition, partially cut off edge), with grey-brown wall behind them

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 23

Feb 23

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Limepots in the form of a Smiling #Cat & Frowning Cat
Cambodia or NE Thailand, 1100-1300 CE
Stoneware, brown-black glaze, 12cm
Stoneware, clear glaze, 10cm
Art Gallery of South Australia 783C25, 828C116:
https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/lime-pot-in-the-form-of-a-smiling-cat/36341/
https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/lime-pot-in-the-form-of-a-frowning-cat/36336/

official museum photo of the object on white background Lime pot, in the form of a smiling cat (in sitting up position) stoneware, brown-black glaze

official museum photo of the object on white background Lime pot, in the form of a frowning cat (in sitting up position) stoneware, clear glaze (base color light brown)

#CatsInArt

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 23

Feb 23

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (Austria, 1891-1978)
#Kittens, c.1926-44
Linocut print, 5 7/8" H x 10" W
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists
https://caseantiques.com/item/lot-182-signed-bresslern-roth-linocut-of-kittens/

“linocut depicting three kittens. A grey and white kitten sleeps in the foreground with an orange kitten and a black kitten behind. Signed "Bresslern-Roth" in pencil, lower right under image and "Hauldrick" in pencil, lower left under image.”

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 9

Feb 9

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

German expressionist painter Franz Marc was born #OTD (8 Feb 1880 – 4 Mar 1916). Since it’s also #Caturday :
The White #Cat , 1912
Oil on cardboard, 50 x 60 cm
Cultural Foundation Saxony‑Anhalt – Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale)
https://st.museum-digital.de/object/15242?navlang=en
#CatsInArt

The motif suggests domesticity, peace , privacy, softness, warmth . But in this picture and in his animal pictures in general , Marc was interested in more than the unpretentiousness of safe motifs. He was driven by the search for a 'pure and light style ', as he wrote, and for this he needed an appropriate starting point. Beyond the expressive movements of subjective life development that otherwise characterized modernism, Marc was more interested in the cosmic dimensions of the visible, the rhythm, the organic and crystalline growth in the world of forms in nature . For him as a painter , finding purity meant taking back the meanings and aspects of use attributed to objects and beings and resolving them in a world of innocent encounters between dream and pure idea . For Marc, the ' animal ' is less a motif than an opportunity to rediscover harmony in the larger context of life. And so Franz Marc gives this small picture the splendour of a festive event. The yellow of the pillow is a twin colour with the red of the blanket and its yellow stars, so that the gentle harmony emerges from the objects in the background. The sleeping cat, however, radiates white and alien from these tones like an untouchable royal animal that is happy with the most magnificent things, as long as it can be slept on. The audience's deep affection for this cat stems from precisely this: from the animal's oneness with itself, which is celebrated in the spiritual order of its picture.

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 9

Feb 9

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Carl Kahler (Austrian, 1856-1906)
Three Black #Cats , n.d.
Oil on canvas, 60 ¼ x 44 ¼ in (153 x 112.4 cm)
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/19th-century-european-art/three-black-cats
#CatsInArt

“Austrian artist Carl Kahler’s towering canvas centers on three larger than life-sized black cats conspicuously perched atop an ornate table in a lavish interior. Their yellow eyes and piercing gaze position the viewer as an intruder. Seen from every angle–from the back at left, the front at center, and the side at right–the three cats together give a sense of each one in the round. The books and scrolls of paper strewn across the table suggest a voracious cerebral appetite, while the open jewel-encrusted box, heavily embroidered curtain, and bulbous vase at right tease other more tangible pleasures.”

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 8

Feb 8

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

When it’s still #FishFriday but #Caturday is just around the corner…
Ohara Koson (aka Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Japan, 1877 - 1945)
#Cat and Bowl of #Goldfish , 1933
woodblock print (Shin-hanga), 14 1/4" x 9 1/8"
#JapaneseArt #CatsInArt
https://www.fujiarts.com/cgi-bin/item.pl?item=719208

“Terrific image of a cat intently watching goldfish swimming in a glass bowl, waiting for the opportunity to pounce. A small fishing net lies on the wooden surface of the table nest to a low ceramic planter filled with water, rocks, and grasses. Beautifully colored with soft shading in the water and the background, and fine detail in the cat's fur, the wood grain, and the fine reed blind hanging at right. A great design, nicely composed. Signed - Shoson, with red "Shoson" artist's seal Publisher - Watanabe, 7 mm seal, Heisei seal in margin, later edition from original blocks”

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 2

Feb 2

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Carl Thiemann (German, 1881-1966)
Kater Murr, 1917
Woodcut in colors, 10 1/2 x 7''
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/carl-thiemann-woodcut-74-c-8f14761b1e
#CatsInArt

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 2

Feb 2

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Fujita Tsuguharu (Japan, 1886-1968)
#Cat , 1949
Oil on canvas, H 9 x W 9 15/16 in (22.9 x 25.2 cm)
Asian Art Museum B81D26 https://searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/7677/cat
#CatsInArt #JapaneseArt

**Art History Animalia** @art_history_animalia@historians.social · Feb 2 *

Feb 2 *

Art History Animalia @art_history_animalia@historians.social

#Caturday :
Agnes Miller Parker (Scottish, 1895-1980)
Siamese #Cat and #Butterfly (Greetings Card)
Printed 1939
Color wood engraving on folded card
13 x 10.4 cm (image), folded card 18 x 14 cm
National Galleries of Scotland GMA 3057
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/16441
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists

"Miller Parker produced numerous commercial prints featuring Siamese cats, including this one. Her cats were often accompanied by other creatures or plants including birds, butterflies and flowers, revealing the animal's natural sense of curiosity. Many of her prints were based on the countless studies she made of her own pets, though few of these drawings survive today."

digital scan of front of the greeting card, printed image in portrait orientation, illustration of a stretched out Siamese cat posed diagonally across composition with rear on top right and front legs on bottom left, cat looking at a butterfly on bottom right, flowers (daisies?) in top left corner; main colors of print are turquoise (matching cat's eyes), yellow-brown (matching cat's fur), black

**Kaêdu X** @Kaedu00@bantu.social · Jan 30

Jan 30

Kaêdu X @Kaedu00@bantu.social

Eu e a Kiwi assim msm
(Arte de Irena Aizen aliás)

#cats
#CatsInArt

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