Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Tristram and Fox c.1775–1785 Oil on canvas, 61 × 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough had a countryman’s love of dogs and included them in numerous portraits and landscape paintings. He also painted a few works where dogs…
Cormon, Fernand (1845-1924) Caïn 1880 Oil on canvas, 400 x 700 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris This painting illustrates the miserable destiny of Cain, the elder son of Adam and Eve, who after the murder of his younger brother Abel was condemned…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage de Bretagne, Le moulin David (Landscape in Brittany, The David Mill) 1894 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Just like Cézanne and Van Gogh, Gauguin was convinced that painting should not be limited…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Death of Adonis 1639 Oil on wood panel, 34.6 x 52.4 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) View in Montmartre, Paris 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite, 35.3 x 25.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Montmartre | Paris (France)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Chien mort (Dead Dog) c.1830 Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 87.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Étude d’un chien (Study of a Dog) possibly 1860s Oil on canvas, 33.3 x 28.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Bonheur was renowned for her animal paintings. She may have seen the long-eared terrier that is the…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Self-Portrait with Dogs c.1925–1926 Oil on canvas, 80.5 x 99.5 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La famille paysanne (The peasant family) 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 81 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The British painter Sickert commented: ‘The sublime man and his stolid spouse face the spectator with all the gravity and symmetry…