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Animals in Art

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African Elephant Running — African Elephant Running Title

19th century Period

27.55 Accession

french, sculpture, bronze, cute, elephant, animal, creature Tags

Algerian Dromedary — Algerian Dromedary Title

19th century Period

27.102 Accession

camel, animal, bronze, sculpture, desert, creature, cast Tags

Allegory of the Element Earth — Allegory of the Element Earth Title

ca. 1580 (Renaissance) Period

37.2363 Accession

lion, monkey, rabbit, food, italy, dog, earth, heaven, eden, fruit, vegetables, bounty, thanksgiving, venetian, ecce homo pedro orrente, harvest, cat, carpet, dogsinart, visitors, msd4419 Tags

Basset Standing with Head Turned to the Right — Basset Standing with Head Turned to the Right Title

modeled ca. 1841 Period

27.72 Accession

dog, sculpture, bronze, cute, creature Tags

Bear Standing Upright — Bear Standing Upright Title

19th century Period

27.137 Accession

bear, animal, sculpture, bronze, creature Tags

Before the Race — Before the Race Title

1882-1884 Period

37.850 Accession

horse, horses, jockeys, impressionism, racing, creature, men, black, yellow, gamesoflife, reninst19 Tags

Cattle Drinking — Cattle Drinking Title

1851 Period

37.59 Accession

cows, animals, landscape, water, sun, sky, wakisachi, katana, resurrection, romantic, memorytour, msd4419, cow Tags

Deer with Foreleg Raised — Deer with Foreleg Raised Title

modeled ca. 1838 Period

27.90 Accession

Diogenes — Diogenes Title

1860 Period

37.131 Accession

cynism, gerome, dogs, animals, light, poor, loyalty, hellenic, dogsinart, teachersandstudents, msd4419, sdesmv, diogenes Tags

Doe Lying Down — Doe Lying Down Title

19th century Period

27.30 Accession

doe, deer, sculpture, animal, bronze Tags

Early Morning — Early Morning Title

mid 19th century Period

37.143 Accession

cows, landscape, animals, romantic, french, woman Tags

Elephant of Cochin-China — Elephant of Cochin-China Title

19th century Period

27.61 Accession

animal, elephant, cute, bronze, sculpture, life Tags

Ewe and Lamb — Ewe and Lamb Title

ca. 1860 Period

37.1619 Accession

animals, drawing, sheep, cute Tags

Falcon Reliquary — Falcon Reliquary Title

ca. 600-350 BCE (Late Period) Period

54.547 Accession

creature Tags

Figure of the Apis Bull — Figure of the Apis Bull Title

6th century BCE (Late Period) Period

54.538 Accession

bull, creature Tags

First Disappointment — First Disappointment Title

1861 Period

28.11 Accession

century, marble, sculpture, child, peasant, girl, american, teacher, resource, kit Tags

Ganesha — Ganesha Title

1st half 11th century (Pala) Period

25.49 Accession

belly, dancing, elephant, god, hindu, sculpture, made, indian, religion, religious, statue, trunk, ganesha, bihar, lobby, holy, cow, ganesh, vinayak, bain, india Tags

Greyhound — Greyhound Title

modeled: 1868; posthumously cast: post-1875 Period

27.475 Accession

animal, dog Tags

Half-Blood Horse — Half-Blood Horse Title

19th century Period

27.52 Accession

horse, animal, sculpture, bronze Tags

Horn with Animals in Vine Scrolls — Horn with Animals in Vine Scrolls Title

11th century (Medieval) Period

71.234 Accession

creature, ivory, oliphant, byzvir Tags

Jaguar Walking, Number 1 — Jaguar Walking, Number 1 Title

19th century Period

27.95 Accession

walking, creature, jaguar, animal, sculpture, bronze Tags

Landscape in Scotland — Landscape in Scotland Title

ca. 1878 Period

37.2625 Accession

landscape, scotland, mountains, sky, light, trees, romanticism, memorytour, landscapes, mac2019, landscare Tags

Large Lion — Large Lion Title

early 1830s Period

37.827 Accession

lion, watercolor, creature, animal, children Tags

Lion and Tortoise — Lion and Tortoise Title

1835 Period

37.1220 Accession

lion, tortoise, drawing, animals, line Tags

Lion in Repose — Lion in Repose Title

early 19th century Period

37.882 Accession

creature, lion, animal, princess Tags

Mold for a Heron Plaque — Mold for a Heron Plaque Title

2nd-1st century BC (Ptolemaic) Period

22.284 Accession

creature, heron, bird, mold, limestone, nile, afterlife, sun, flooding, egypt, egyptian, greco-roman, baby, underfire, phonewallpapers Tags

Monkey — Monkey Title

19th century Period

54.2496 Accession

creature, monkey, animal, bronze, sculpture Tags

Noah's Family Assembling Animals before the Ark — Noah's Family Assembling Animals before the Ark Title

ca. 1660 (Baroque) Period

37.1998 Accession

ark, creature, leopard, birds, forest, germany, german, horse, animal, religion, biblical, christian, bible, religious, dog, baroque, animals Tags

On the Desert — On the Desert Title

before 1867 Period

37.34 Accession

dog, animals, man, desert, gerome, orientalism, sand, storm, hunting, encountering, dogsinart Tags

Ploughing Scene — Ploughing Scene Title

1854 Period

37.836 Accession

century, agriculture, teacher, resource, kit, ox, farmer, invincible, landscape, ploughman, birds, haystacks, french, naturalism, animalsinart, reninst19, animals Tags

Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa — Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa Title

1557 (High Renaissance) Period

37.1016 Accession

mannerism, apple, invincible, meninart, female, renaissance, portrait, oil, sword, dogsinart, retratos, strikeapose, manuscripts, ri923 Tags

Rabbit with Ears Down — Rabbit with Ears Down Title

19th century Period

27.25 Accession

creature Tags

Rabbit, Ears Raised — Rabbit, Ears Raised Title

first offered for sale 1845 Period

27.59 Accession

creature, rabbit Tags

Rearing Bull — Rearing Bull Title

modeled: 1841; first cast: ca. 1845 Period

27.38 Accession

creature Tags

Reclinging Doe and Faun — Reclinging Doe and Faun Title

19th century Period

27.29 Accession

creature Tags

Repose — Repose Title

19th century Period

37.160 Accession

creature, romanticism, french, cows, cow Tags

Rhinoceros — Rhinoceros Title

ca. 1900 Period

27.480 Accession

creature Tags

River Scene — River Scene Title

1868 Period

37.2933 Accession

language, landscapes, reninst19 Tags

Roger and Angelica Mounted on the Hippogriff — Roger and Angelica Mounted on the Hippogriff Title

modeled: ca. 1840; first cast: 1846 Period

27.173 Accession

century, creature, hippogriff Tags

Running Jaguar — Running Jaguar Title

ca. 1830-1840 Period

37.820 Accession

sappho, creature, hello, wasupkids, veryweird, wasuup, dimer Tags

Seated Cat — Seated Cat Title

1824-1910 Period

54.2461 Accession

creature Tags

Seated Cat — Seated Cat Title

ca. 664-350 BCE (Late Period) Period

54.403 Accession

creature, cat, ancient, egypt, gold, statue, seated, earrings Tags

Seated Lion — Seated Lion Title

First cast: 1847 Period

27.448 Accession

creature Tags

Snuffbox with Mosaic of a Seated Dog — Snuffbox with Mosaic of a Seated Dog Title

mid 19th century Period

43.10 Accession

creature, dog, animal, mosaic Tags

Spaniel and Goose — Spaniel and Goose Title

modeled ca. 1820 Period

27.97 Accession

dog, goose Tags

Spaniel With Puppies — Spaniel With Puppies Title

1840 Period

37.1272 Accession

dog, creature Tags

Stag In The Woods — Stag In The Woods Title

19th century Period

37.2613 Accession

Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon — Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon Title

ca. 380-250 BCE (Late Period (30th dynasty)-early Ptolemaic Period) Period

22.347 Accession

creature, sobek, horus, deity, egypt, egyptian, fayyum, faiyum, khofo Tags

Stork Standing on a Turtle — Stork Standing on a Turtle Title

first offered 1845 Period

27.139 Accession

creature Tags

Syria, The Night Watch — Syria, The Night Watch Title

1880 Period

37.84 Accession

lion, ruins, oriental, syrian, msd4419 Tags

The Approach of a Storm — The Approach of a Storm Title

ca. 1872 Period

37.77 Accession

cows, storm, farm, farmers, bow, cow, memorytour, msd4419 Tags

The Banks of the Bouzanne River — The Banks of the Bouzanne River Title

1860-1869 Period

37.137 Accession

landscare Tags

The Catskills — The Catskills Title

1859 Period

37.122 Accession

abstract, landscape, transcendentialism, romantic, memorytour, nature, waltersfamily, reninst19, landscare Tags

Tiger at Rest — Tiger at Rest Title

ca. 1830s-1840s Period

37.834 Accession

cat, library, squirrel, rest, creature, adorable, laying, lay, stripes, puff, fluff, fast, faster, fastcat, big, runnercat, fabulous, gorgeous, cool, wow, puppy, amazing, black, love, baby, bee, boy, duck, small, good, god, mermaid, huge Tags

Tiger at Rest — Tiger at Rest Title

mid 19th century Period

37.833 Accession

creature, tiger, megafauna, discoveries602, retrolines Tags

Turkish Horse, No. 2 — Turkish Horse, No. 2 Title

modeled ca. 1844 Period

27.67 Accession

creature, horse, equine Tags

Turtle — Turtle Title

before 1845 Period

27.56 Accession

creature Tags

Turtle on a Base Strewn with Leaves and a Shell — Turtle on a Base Strewn with Leaves and a Shell Title

19th century Period

27.109 Accession

Two Monkeys with Books, Viola, and Tambourine — Two Monkeys with Books, Viola, and Tambourine Title

ca. 1860 Period

37.1618 Accession

Two Pigs Eating from a Trough — Two Pigs Eating from a Trough Title

ca. 1860 Period

37.1638 Accession

Walking Bear — Walking Bear Title

ca. 1850s-1860s Period

37.814 Accession

creature Tags

Wine Jar with Carp among Water Weeds and Lotuses — Wine Jar with Carp among Water Weeds and Lotuses Title

1521-1566 (Ming) Period

49.1917 Accession

china, jar, view, teacher, resource, kit, fish, wine, chineseporcelain2021, reninstasia Tags

Woodpecker — Woodpecker Title

ca. 1760-1765 Period

48.822 Accession