Man's Best Friend in Art

I have been to the Metropolitian Museum of art many times. So when I was asked to be a curator for a gallery, I could only think of something that majority of people love. Man's Best friend, it is one of the most unselfsish friend a human can have. The Exhibit shows the many ways the animal can be depicted trough art form. The dog is such a loved animal throughout the whole world.The exhibit will showcase paintings, sculptures, jewelry, photography, even a dog shaped utensil.I hope you enjoy Man's best friend in Art.



A Woman with a Dog

Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)

Date: ca. 1769
Accession Number: 37.118






Coat

Gallina

Date: 1920
Accession Number: 2009.300.1124a–c






Child with Dog; Two Figures in Encounter; Two Figures and Child Attending to Dying Male [?]; Figure on Deathbed (from Sketchbook)

Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783–1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date: 1810–20
Accession Number: 53.182.18 verso




Baby with Rattle and Dog

Mrs. Moses B. Russell (Clarissa Peters) (1809–1854)

Date: 1842
Accession Number: 1999.6




Dog pendant

Date: ca. 3300–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 1995.329




Dog(?)

Date: 4th–7th century
Accession Number: 1979.206.338



Dancing Dogs

Attributed to George Morland (English, London 1763–1804 London)

Accession Number: 52.116




Cosmetic Spoon in Shape of Dog

Date: ca. 1550–1295 B.C.
Accession Number: 10.130.2520




A Young French Lady and a Siamese Servant Taking a Dog for a Walk

Sadahide Gountei (Japanese (1807–ca. 1873))

Date: November 1860
Accession Number: JP3298




Surimono Calendar for the Dog Year, 1814

Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Date: 1814
Accession Number: JP1032




Netsuke of Foreigner Carrying a Dog

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 10.211.1505










Traveler with Dog, from the series Sixteen Peasant Subjects

Cornelis Bloemaert (Dutch, Utrecht 1603–?1684 Rome)

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 49.95.532



The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, Plympton 1723–1792 London)

Date: 1761–66
Accession Number: 87.16




[Walker Evans with Poodle]

Unknown Artist, American

Date: 1940s
Accession Number: 1994.254.136




Diana

Edward Francis McCartan (American, 1879–1947)

Date: 1923
Accession Number: 23.106.1



Sampler

Date: 1779
Accession Number: 57.122.541



"My dog the truftieft of his kind"