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Dogs in Art

The dog was the first species to be domesticated and has accompanied humans for centuries performing many roles, eg. protecting, herding, hunting. This is a collection of artworks featuring 'man's best friend'.

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Published gallery

Portrait of Edwin vom Rath’s Pug

Rijksmuseum

A Cherry Vendor at the Door

Rijksmuseum

Finnish National Gallery

Four Studies of a Dog

Rijksmuseum

Portrait of the Dog Phoebus

Rijksmuseum

A Man Dancing with a Dog

Rijksmuseum

Portrait of a young Woman, with 'Puck' the Dog

Rijksmuseum

A St Bernard Dog

Rijksmuseum

A Dog on a Chair

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Boy Fleaing a Dog

Rijksmuseum

Interior with Woman Sewing

Rijksmuseum

Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as ‘The Dancing Lesson’

Rijksmuseum

A Saint Bernard Dog Comes to the Aid of a lost Woman with a sick Child

Rijksmuseum

Portrait of Alida Christina Assink

Rijksmuseum

Portrait of Martinus Alewijn

Rijksmuseum

Dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

Rijksmuseum

Zvicken the Sleeping Dog, study

Finnish National Gallery

Michael and Xenia, children of the Tsar Alexander III

Finnish National Gallery

On the Porch (Dog and Cat)

Majsch, Eduard

Slovak national gallery

Weisz-Kubínčan, Arnold Peter

Slovak national gallery

Portrait of the young Henri Bertholet-Campan (1784-1821) with the dog Aline

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

Nationalmuseum Sweden

Dog, Lying Down

Georg Arsenius

Nationalmuseum Sweden

White Dog and Pheasant

Claude-François Desportes

Nationalmuseum Sweden

Portrait of a Girl with a Dog

Okänd

Nationalmuseum Sweden

Dog and a Birch Log

Govert Dircksz. Camphuysen

Nationalmuseum Sweden

Cod. Ser. n. 2669, fol. 6r: Marine Fauna of the Adriatic Sea: Dog

Austrian National Library

Rijksmuseum

Deze hond bijt niet

Rijksmuseum

Twee studies van een liggende hond

Rijksmuseum

Twee zittende honden

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Basset Griffon hond

Rijksmuseum

Nederlandse vrouw met haar hond

Rijksmuseum

Four dogs: Above, a Makenzie River dog and a Esquimaux dog, below, a Thibet dog and a Wild…

Edwin Henry Landseer

Wellcome Collection

Eight different domestic dogs, including a cattle dog, a bull dog, a mastiff, a rough wate…

Wellcome Collection

Head of the famous Eskimo dog. Lithograph by H. Hawkins.

Henry Hawkins

Wellcome Collection

A head of a dog. Watercolour.

Wellcome Collection

A little girl and her dog

Joseph Watson & Sons, Ltd.; W. H. Gunston

Wellcome Collection

A young child is asleep guarded by a large dog. Engraving.

Wellcome Collection

An Artois dog. Reproduction of an etching by R. Vignenot.

Wellcome Collection

Four different dogs, including a greyhound and a siberian sheep dog. Coloured etching by L…

Vauthier

Wellcome Collection

Head of a vermin-hunting dog called "Shivers". Etching by W. Raddon after H. B. Chalon.

Henry-Bernard Chalon

Wellcome Collection

A St Bernard dog resting on the steps of a staircase. Colour line block after a painting b…

Henry Shaw

Wellcome Collection

A hunting dog standing on a heath. Etching by J. Webb after A. Cooper.

Abraham Cooper

Wellcome Collection

Hund / Chien / Dog / Cane / Hond

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Head of a Leonberger

Rijksmuseum

Hond (Canis lupus familiaris)

Rijksmuseum