Genre
Dogs
The dog has sat in paintings since the hunting tapestries, loyal at a master's heel or curled in a domestic corner. By the nineteenth century it had become a subject in its own right, painted for character as much as breed, a creature the Victorians read for sentiment and fidelity.
Key artists
Works
Venus and Adonis
The New Bonnet
Autumn - On the Hudson River
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Cider Making
Domestic Scene
The Ark
Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)
Washerwomen
The Interior of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
The Nymph of Fontainebleau
Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan
Madame Georges Charpentier and her Children
A Dance in the Country
The Swing
Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family
Paintings of physicians by Jan Steen
Venus and Music
The Adoration of the Magi
The Love Letter
Watson Van Benthuysen II and Thomas Van Benthuysen
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Mother and Son
Abraham's Parting from the Family of Lot
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Moonlight Landscape with Crab Fishermen
On the Jetty
Venus and Adonis
The Visit to the Nursery
Prospekt af hovedgården Lykkesholm på Fyn. Vinter
Untitled
Family Group in a Landscape
The Love Letter
Sir Anthony Mildmay, Knight of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire
Landscape with Hunters
Final study for "La Grande Jatte"
An Allegory
Untitled
The Adoration of the Shepherds
A Sermon on Charity (possibly the Conversion of Saint Anthony)
Young Ladies of the Village
The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog
Edward Smith Stanley (1752–1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, with His First Wife (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753–1797) and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851)
Tobias Curing His Father's Blindness
Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers
Untitled
The Crucifixion
The Curious
Merry Company on a Terrace
On the Beach, Dieppe
Landscape
Children and a Cow
Untitled
The Cottage Dooryard
The Good Samaritan
Portrait of a Woman with a Dog
Still life in a stable
Dune Landscape with Figures
Traveling Warriors Stopping at a Farm
Danaë
Parochialstrasse in Berlin
Group Portrait: A Wedding Celebration
Saint Margaret of Cortona
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Trappers
Judgment of Paris
An interior of a barn with a scullery maid at a well
Hugo van der Goes Painting the Portrait of Mary of Burgundy
The Adoration of the Magi
Mary R. Whitlock
Young Man and Woman in an Inn
The Adoration of the Magi
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ("Starting for the Hunt")
A Hunting Scene
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Untitled
Lady with a Dog
The Golden Age
The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Untitled
Roundel with Annunciation to the Shepherds
Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field
The canal at 's-Graveland
Interior of a Catholic Church
The Card Party
On the Beach at Trouville
Untitled
Card Players in a Drawing Room
Untitled
The slaughtered ox
Moses Striking the Rock
After the Hunt
The Virgin Adored by Saints
A Hunter with a Dog
Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed ("The Maidservant")
Hunting Scene
Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter
南宋 佚名 傳李公麟 豳風七月圖 卷|Odes of the State of Bin
Shepherds and Sheep
高野四所明神像|The Four Deities of Mount Kōya
Cows Crossing a Ford
Count Giacomo Durazzo in the Guise of a Huntsman with His Wife
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Madame Claude Lambert de Thorigny (Marie Marguerite Bontemps, 1668–1701)
Piping Shepherds
"King Lear," Act I, Scene I
Strawberry Pedlar
Portrait of a Young Woman
Christ Healing the Sick
The Third Duke of Dorset's Hunter with a Groom and a Dog
The Harrower
The Highland Family
View from Staten Island
Ameto's Discovery of the Nymphs
The Golden Age
The Return to the Fold
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare
Christ Presented to the People
Interior with a Young Couple
The Last Supper
Portrait of James Stuart, Duke of Lennox and Richmond
The Declaration of Love
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
The Interrupted Sleep
A Hare, Partridges, and Fruit
Susanna and the Elders
Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before
Santa Francesca Romana (1384–1440) Clothed by the Virgin
Uvedale Tomkyns Price (1685–1764) and Members of His Family
Rest
The Theological Virtues: Faith, Charity, Hope
The Hunt Breakfast
Officer paying a woman in a stable
Mars and Venus with Cupid and a Dog
Scene in a Courtyard
Christ among the Doctors
The Hunting Party—New Jersey
Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge
Campo Sant'Angelo
María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain
A Huntsman and a Peasant Woman by the Isar River with a View of Munich
The Old Castle
Untitled
Venus and Adonis
A Woman from the Land of Eskimos
A Group of Danish Artists in Rome
Interior with a company celebrating Twelfth Night, the Feast of Epiphany
Boy with a Greyhound
A Woman with a Dog
Tobit Burying the Dead
The Missionary's Adventures
Portrait of a Boy, Probably of the Crossfield Family
Diana
Classical Landscape with Figures
Peasants Dancing
Landscape
The Bell Inn
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
The Billiard Room
Traveling Players
Portrait of a Young Man
Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)
A Musical Gathering at the Court of the Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria
Buttermilk Pedlar
The Dog Killer
A Woodland Road with Travelers
Street Scene in Paris (Coin de rue à Paris)
A Woman with a Dog
The Villa Loredan, Paese
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
Lady Maria Conyngham (died 1843)
The Dispatch of the Messenger
Portrait of a Young Man
Diana and Cupid
Dog Guarding Dead Game
The Music Room
Entrance to the Grotto of Posillipo
Saint Dominic Resuscitating Napoleone Orsini
Figures and a Dog in a Landscape
Joseph and Karl August von Klein
Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Gagarina (1762–1802)
Visit to a New Mother
Venus of Urbino
The Prison of Copenhagen
Familien Waagepetersen
Landscape
Große Landschaft mit Tieren
Untitled
A Musical Party
Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge
Pilgrims Travelling to Ise
Portrait of a Lady with a Dog on a Table
Portrait of a Moravian Woman
The Rabbit Hunters
Untitled
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal
Orpheus and the Animals
A Man Asleep Alongside a Dog and a Horse
The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra
An Old Bridge at Hendon, Middlesex
Frequently asked questions
What is Dogs?
Dogs is a motif in painting. The dog has sat in paintings since the hunting tapestries, loyal at a master's heel or curled in a domestic corner.
How many Dogs works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 647 public-domain Dogs works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Dogs artists?
Key Dogs artists in the collection include Titian, Thomas Eakins and Paolo Veronese.