I love André Kertész's cat portraits. This one is from the 1930s
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A cat snoozing in a sun-beam. A great shot by François Kollar, from 1931-32
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For #Caturday, a close-up by François Kollar, 1931-32
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A working cat portrayed in stone at the Château d'Antoine d'Abbadie. The Château, in Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, was designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, & built in the 1860s & 70s.
Photo: P. Tournaud, 2001
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A Siamese cat listening to a very cool cylinder phonograph, 1941
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A Gothic cat's head, from the Église Saint-Étienne de Dun-sur-Auron. Great character design, perhaps, for a cartoon cat.
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A lovely cat drawing by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. There are scores of these in the Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine database
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Jean Poittier's shot of a modernist cat in Grigny, a southern suburb of France, 1976. Some cats seem to be very much aware of their decorative effect.
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Juliette Gréco with a friend, c. 1943
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Is this an oddly-shaped house-cat at the feet of a martyred St. Sebastien, or an oddly-shaped miniature lion? A detail from a Gothic stained-glass window, in the Église paroissiale Saint-Nizier in Troyes.
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Photo: Jacques Philippot, 1986

I love this shot so much. It's pretty much the perfect writer's studio: Willy Ronis took this at the home of his friend, the writer Georges Borgeaud, in August 1954. A perfect view, past the kitty, of the fields of Provence, outside Gordes.
"Le chat de l'écrivain"
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