I haven't posted here in a bit, but I had to jump in on this one. This complaint is so pedantic, and many people in the replies have already pointed it out- i hate content farms, though, many of the replies are somehow also inaccurate, and this blog is dedicated to this topic. So;
This is absolutely not a rennaisance cat painting. This piece, Julie Manet with Cat, was painted in 1887 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir- at least 1,000 years after the Rennaisance period, depending on your source. It is an impressionist piece, made during the Romantic period. The two styles are extremely different, so I don't even understand the confusion here aside from the obvious "assuming every good cat painting is from the 14th/15th century or before" thing that always seems to happen.
Want actual rennaisance cats? While they were commonly depicted in portraits of young women and girls...
(Portrait of a young lady holding a cat (1525) by Francesco Ubertinu and Portrait of a Woman with Cat (1540 - 1550) by Ambrosious Benson)
They were more frequently depicted in the background of larger scenes, sometimes alongside dogs and usually in religious art. (You might have to look quite closely to find the cats in these pieces). See Recanati Annunciation (1534/35) by Lorenzo Lotto...
The Return of the Prodigal Son (c. 1570) by Jacopo Bassano...
The Birth of John The Baptist (c. 1520 - 1570) by Lambert Sustris...
...or The Last Supper (c. mid-late 1500s) by Benedetto Caliari.
Cat art from the 15th and 16th century is fun and cool, but I'm personally a little tired of every painting of a cat that looks a bit funny or very old being mislabelled as "medieval" or "rennaisance". I could whine a bit more about this but this addition is already long enough, I think.
I'll leave you with my favourite pieces of actual Rennaisance cat art, which are not paintings but a series of sketches by Leonardo Da Vinci, which collectively tend to be referred to as "Studies for The Madonna of the Cat". (c. 1478 - 1481)
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