Even the paintings don't like the cat music.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.  If you, too, would like to make others run away screaming, see How to Be Your Own Cat.

Here's a haunted painting from Life's Fairy Tales by J. A. Mitchell, 1892.

Here's how to use a haunted painting to practice the old table cloth trick, in which the dishes remain on the table when you yank the cloth away (if performed properly, of course).  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

Here's a precursor to the "changing portraits" of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.

A haunted painting or a secret panel?  From The London Journal, 1863.

The power of art.  From Jugend, 1912.

"The portraits on the wall seemed to give her a welcome."  From The Colonel's Money by Lucy Cecil Lillie, 1888.

This is how, if you aren't careful about the artwork near your bed, you can end up with a family.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.

The paintings have eyes.  From Mocca, 1933.

Here's a haunted painting from Krokodil, 1945.

"Beautiful paintings do not possess husbands."  From The Spell by William Dana Orcutt, 1909.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.

"The old fellow in the picture," from The Mountain-Sprite's Kingdom by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1881.