I'm usually on the lookout for less-known paintings and painters for my Saturday series, which started as just Women Reading but tends to branch out from time to time. But here we have something which you may have seen before -- Pierre Auguste Renoir's painting of his friend Manet's daughter Julie with her cat. It was painted in 1887, but is pretty timeless, really -- both the little girl and the cat look almost drunk with contentment. One of my two cats loves being cuddled like this -- the other one is a bit more skittish, though he'll sometimes welcome a snuggle too.
