George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) was among the most suc¬cessful Dutch painters of the nineteenth century. Well known for his paintings of city scenes, a series of young women dressed in kimonos, cavalrymen and horses, Breitner also depicted cats in his sketches, paintings, and photographs. Breitner was a cat lover: cats were always roaming around in his house and in his studi¬o. This book contains a selection of his sketches and photographs of cats.