Girl with a Cat

Inscription: Signed and inscribed (verso, upper right): John / Enfant et Chat

the artist, Paris (until ca. 1922; sold by March 1922 to Foster); Jeanne Robert Foster, Paris and New York (by 1922–62; sold in 1962 to Maynard Walker); [Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, 1962; sold in 1962 to Payson]; Joan Whitney Payson, New York (1962–d. 1975; her bequest to MMA)

Paris. Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées. "Salon d'automne," November 1–December 20, 1921, no. 1209 (as "Enfant et Chat").

London. Barbican Art Gallery. "Gwen John: An Interior Life," September 12–November 3, 1985, no. 28 (as "Girl with Cat').

Manchester City Art Gallery. "Gwen John: An Interior Life," November 28, 1985–January 26, 1986, no. 28.

New Haven. Yale Center for British Art. "Gwen John: An Interior Life," February 26–April 20, 1986, no. 28.

National Museum of Wales. "Gwen John," February 7, 2026–June 28, 2026.

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, National Galleries Scotland. "Gwen John," August 1, 2026–January 4, 2027.

Yale Center for British Art, Yale University. "Gwen John," February 18, 2027–June 20, 2027.

National Museum of Women in the Arts. "Gwen John," July 30, 2027–November 28, 2027.

Judith Zilczer. "The Noble Buyer:" John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, 1978, p. 167, calls it "Girl with Pinafore and Cat" and erroneously lists it as formerly in the Quinn collection.

Cecily Langdale in Cecily Langdale and David Fraser Jenkins. Gwen John: An Interior Life. Exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London. Oxford, 1985, pp. 85, 91, no. 28, ill. p. 27 (color).

Cecily Langdale. Gwen John: With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings. New Haven, 1987, pp. 76, 88, 155–56, 219, no. 70, colorpl. 111, calls it "Girl with Cat"; states that it was painted before autumn 1921 and dates it probably late 1910s to early 1920s.

James Stourton. Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 'Civilisation'. London, 2016, p. 250.

Adam Eaker with Cecily Brown in Ian Alteveer. Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2023, pp. 102–4, fig. 19 (color).

Alicia Foster. Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris. London, 2023, pp. 184, 260 n. 6.