Art, literature & history
A Boy with a Cat—Morning
1787
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59 1/4 x 47 1/2 in. (150.5 x 120.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 89.15.8
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Gainsborough. A Boy with a Cat—Morning. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
A Boy with a Cat—Morning — Thomas Gainsborough. 1787.
Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 59 1/4 x 47 1/2 in. (150.5 x 120.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.