The world's greatest cat painting, a 6-by-8.5-foot canvas featuring 42 Persian and angora cats, will be on display at the Portland Art Museum through June 8. Sunday was scheduled to be its last day, but the museum announced this week that the stay has been extended.

So you still have 26 days to see Carl Kahler's "My Wife's Lovers," the name given the painting by San Francisco millionaire philanthropist Kate Birdsall Johnson, who commissioned the painting in 1891. In 1949, Cat Magazine lauded it as "the world's greatest painting of cats," the museum's website says.

The oil painting was publicly unveiled at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and has been on loan to the museum since February by its new owners, John and Heather Mozart of Northern California, according to the museum's website. The Mozarts bought the painting at a Sotheby's auction last November for $826,000, about three times its estimated sale price.

Have you gone to see the cat painting? Or are you planning on it? If you have and if you took a selfie with it, post it in the comments below, and we'll put them up on our Facebook page.

Museum admission is regularly $19.99, but admission is free Sunday as part of Miller Family Free Day and national Museum Day. Admission is also free from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, June 2, for First Thursday. Admission is only $5 every Friday evening from from 5-8 p.m.

-- Susan Green

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