Losing a loved one is never easy and when Russian artist Svetlana Petrova‘s mother passed away, she inherited her ginger cat named Zarathustra. As she began photoshopping her cat into famous paintings, the cat photobombs brought her joy and it was one way for her to work through her grief and help cope with her loss.
Because of the positive reactions, she began receiving, she decided to cleverly insert Zarathustra into other famous works of art and turn these masterpieces into something even more unique. Here are 27 funny cat photobombs of Petrova’s ginger cat that is sure to make you smile!
1) Fat Cat Photobombs: Whistler’s Mother, James McNeill Whistler (1871)
2) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Édouard Manet (1882)
3) Still Life with Cheese, Floris van Dyck (1615)
4) The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí (1931)
5) Perseus and Phineas, Annibale Carracci and Domenichino (1597)
6) The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli (1486)
7) Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Jacques-Louis David (1801)
8) The Kitchen Maid, Johannes Vermeer (1657–1658)
9) Untitled, Banksy
10) Still Life with a Lobster, Willem Claesz Heda (1650)
11) The Merchant’s Wife at Tea, Boris Kustodiev (1918)
12) Bogatyrs, Victor Vasnetsov (1898)
13) Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (1503-1506)
14) Sistine Madonna, Raphael (1612)
15) Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix (1830)
16) The Merry Family, Jan Steen (1668)
17) Escaping Criticism, Pere Borrell del Caso (1874)
18) Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1530)
19) Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)
20) The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563)
21) Lady with an Ermine, Leonardo da Vinci (1489–1490)
22) The Night Watch, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1642)
23) Venus of Urbino, Titian (1538)
24) The Stolen Kiss, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1788)
25) The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo (1511-1512)
26) American Gothic, Grant Wood (1930)
27) The Scream, Edvard Munch (1893–1893)
If you can’t get enough of Zarathustra the cat, please check out even more work from Svetlana Petrova. Please share these hilarious famous painting cat photobombs with your friends and family.
