Xu Beihong's Self-Portrait with a Cat

This charming painting by 20th-century artist Xu Beihong is a lovely self-portrait with his wife Jiang Biwei and their fluffy white cat. This painting was made in 1924 while Xu studied Western painting techniques at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Xu is famous for his ink paintings of swift horses, but he also loved cats!