The cat who balanced the baby's cradle

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
'The Inundation of The Biesbosch in 1421

William Holman Hunt: 'A Flood', 1870

"Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted this in the 1800s, after a true story from 1421 when a flood carried off a cat and a cradle. The cat jumped from side to side on the cradle to keep it upright..."

More about the paintings and the validity (or not) of the story at My Own Thoughts, via A Polar Bear's Tale.