Q.
Happy National Dog Day! This one’s for you, Chloe. Ever the Queen. 🐶👑

Many of us try our hands at drawing our beloved pups in pencil, pastel, paint. Some of us have little to no success. Which lucky dogs have been captured by artists of renown?

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Bring on the fancy dogs…

Jan Van Eyck. Arnolfini Portrait. 1434

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Lavinia Fontana. Portrait of a Noblewoman. 1580

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Adriaen van Utrecht. Still Life. 1644
“Score!”

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Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas. 1656

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Frans van Mieris. The Letter Writer. 1680

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Jean Honoré Fragonard. The Love Letter. Early 1770s

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John Hoppner. Princess Amelia. 1785

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Jan Dasveldt. Two Dogs. ~  1810-55 ~

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Edwin Henry Landseer. A Distinguished Member of the Human Society. 1831

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Jan Adam Kruseman. Portrait of Alida Christina Assink. 1833

 

Nicholas Toussaint Charlet. Head of a Dog. ~ 1845

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Rosa Bonheur. A Limier Briquet Hound. 1856

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Auguste Renoir. Le cabaret de la Mère Antony à Bourron-Marlotte. 1866

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Édouard Manet. Tama, the Japanese Dog. 1875

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August Renoir. Madame Georges Charpentier and her children. 1878

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Claude Monet. Portrait of Eugenie Graff (Madame Paul). 1882

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Thomas Eakins. The Artist’s Wife and his Setter Dog. 1884-89

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Berthe Morisot. Girl with Dog. 1886

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Paul Gauguin. Still Life with Three Puppies. 1888

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John Singer Sargent. Woman with Collie. After 1890

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Berthe Morisot. Julie Manet and her Greyhound Laerte. 1893

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Alexander Pope. At The Kennel Door. 1905

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Samuel Burtis Baker. Portrait of Ernest Lee Major. 1910

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Edvard Munch. In the Kennel. 1913

 

Romaine Brooks. Una, Lady Troubridge. 1924

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Otto Dix. Hugo Erfurth with Dog. 1926

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Frederic Clay Bartlett. Mrs. Bartlett with a Dog. 1931

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Edward Hopper. Cape Cod Evening. 1939

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Frieda Kahlo. Self Portrait with Small Monkey. 1945

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Pablo Picasso. Femme au chien. 1962

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Mattie Lou O’Kelley. Farm Scene. 1975

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Header Art: Emil Armin. My Neighbours. 1929