This gilt bronze-mounted porcelain cat was made in Qianlong, China and formerly owned by Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV. Upon her death, the cat was inherited by her brother who sold it to wealthy tax collector Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset (who supposedly added the stool). It was then sold to Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, husband of painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. After Le Brun's death, it was shoved away and forgotten until its rediscovery in 2017.
It is now housed at the Getty Museum.
















