DOG
A Painter's Best Friend

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Dog has always been Man's most loyal, truthful and proud friend, keeping you company in all moments, good and bad.

In this page you can see how we have been immortalised in Man's most delightful form of art - Painting, in which we often were represented, as a symbol of reliability, loyalty and fidelity.

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Gothic Painting (1290-1510)
Gentile da Fabriano The Adoration of the Magi 1422	Hieronymous Bosch The Temptation of St Anthony	Jan van Eyck The Arnolfini Marriage

Italian Renaissance (1420-1600)
Titian Venus and Adonis 1555	Agnolo Bronzino A Lady with a Puppy

Baroque and Rococo (1600-1780)
Diego Velázquez Las Meninas 1656	Diego Velázquez The Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand as a Hunter	Diego Velázquez Prince Felipe Próspero 1659	Diego Velázquez Philip IV as a Hunter 1634-36

Peter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris 1638	Murillo The Holy Family 1650	Ludolf de Jongh Hunting Party in the Courtyard of a Country House late 1660s

Cornelis Dusart Pipe Smoker 1684	Jean-Baptiste Greuze The Spoiled Child 1765

Follower of William Hogarth Portrait of a Young Girl 1742-45	William Hogarth The Painter and his Pug 1745	Pompeo Batoni Diana & Cupid 1761	Joseph-Siffred Duplessis Madam Freret-Déricour 1769

Classicism, Romanticism, Realism (1740-1850)
Goya Portait of Maria Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga 1783	William Turner Mortlake Terrace 1826	Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Dignity and Impudence 1839

Impressionism (1850 - 1900)
Gustave Courbet Bonjour Monsieur Courbet 1854	Gustave Courbet The Painter's Studio 1855	Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Luncheon of the Boating Party 1881	Auguste Renoir Madame Charpentier and Her Children Paul at her knee and Georgette 1878

Mary Cassatt Little Girl in a Blue Armchair 1873	Edouard Manet Gare St-Lazare 1873	Edouard Manet The Balcony 1868-69

Berthe Morisot In a Park	Berthe Morisot Julie Manet et son Lévrier Laerte

Eugène Boudin The Beach Huts 1866	Eugène Boudin La Plage de Trouville 1865	Paul Gauguin Arearea	Georges Seurat Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte 1886

American, 20th Century
Edward Hopper Cape Cod Evening 1939	Grace Carpenter Hudson Baby Bunting 1894	Grace Carpenter Hudson Flower Time 1904	Grace Carpenter Hudson Twins 1896

Background Image:

Claude Monet, Poppies near Argenteuil, 1873

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