Dogs in Art

Loyalty made visible. Hunting companions in aristocratic portraits, lapdogs in genre scenes, street mutts in prints — dogs appear wherever artists looked closely at human life.

2,847 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download

Bottle

Wistarburgh Glassworks, 1738–ca. 1777

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog

Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1769

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize Stallion

Tara, 1845–46

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Ambrosius Gemlich|Peter Peck, ca. 1540–45

Melencolia I

Albrecht Dürer, 1514

Lidded Saltcellar

Sapi-Portuguese artist, 15th–16th century

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia), ca. 1449

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir, 1878

Goa Stone and Gold Case

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi|Suzi, dated A.H. 904/1498–99 CE

"King Lear," Act I, Scene I

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat, 1884

Hunters in a Landscape

Jost Amman|Anonymous Flemish weavers|Anonymous, 16th century, ca. 1575–95

Box with Romance Scenes

Mechanical Dog

The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog

Thomas Eakins, ca. 1884–89

The Indian Hunter

John Quincy Adams Ward, 1860, cast by 1883

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen|Januarius Zick|Elie Gervais|Pierre Rémond, ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Leatherstocking's Rescue

John Quidor, 1832

Rectangular Octave Virginal

Venus and Adonis

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 1550s

Artist's Sketch of Pharaoh Spearing a Lion

Game of Hounds and Jackals

Harpsichord

Beaker with Apes

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting

Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1663–65

Tapestry with figurative scenes

Emperor Vespasian Cured by Veronica's Veil

Mandora

Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter, 7th–8th century

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet, 1851–52

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen, ca. 1670

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David, ca. 1510

Christ Carrying the Cross

Martin Schongauer, ca. 1475–80

Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Phebe Warner Coverlet

Sarah Furman Warner Williams, ca. 1803

The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio), ca. 1494–1500

Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family

Charles Le Brun, ca. 1660

The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess

Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), ca. 1510–20