the rise of pet keeping
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This presentation gives an overview of the history of pet keeping from the fifteenth through the eighteenth century.TRANSCRIPT
The Rise of Pet Keeping
15th-18th centuries
Hunters, Dogs, and Horses
Devonshire Hunting Tapestries 1420s
Les Très Riches Heures du Ducde Berry, c. 1440
Hunt in the Forest Paolo Uccello, c. 1470
Hunters in the Snow (Detail)Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565
Hounds Bringing Down a BoarFrans Snyders, early 17th c.
Huntsman Feeding His DogsHerman Saftleven, c. 1625
Prince Baltasar Carlos as Hunter (Detail)Diego Velázquez, 1636
The Hunter’s Trophy with Dog and OwlDavid de Coninck, 1660s
Anna Maria Luisa de’Medici in Hunting DressJan Frans van Douven, c. 1695
Equestrian Portrait of a CoupleGonzales Coques, Late 17th c.
People with Their Pets
Portrait of a Lady with a PuppyAgnolo Bronzino, c. 1534
Clarissa StrozziTitian, 1542
Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi HercolaniLavinia Fontana, c. 1595
Margaret of AustriaBartolomé Gonzales y Serrano, 1609
Alathea Howard, Countess of ArundelPeter Paul Rubens, 1620
Self-Portrait in Oriental Attire with PoodleRembrandt, 1631
James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and LennoxAnthony Van Dyck, c. 1635
Ferdinand of AustriaDiego Velázquez, 1636
Big Dog, Dwarf, and BoyJoannes Fijt, 1652
A Man with a CatChristoph Paudiss, mid-17th c.
Two Children with a CatJudith Leister, mid-17th c.
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an EelJudith Leyster, mid-17th c.
A Boy Ridding His Dog of FleasGerard ter Borch, c. 1665
A Lady with a Pet DogPieter Cornelisz van Sligelandt, 1672
The Cottage DooryardAdriaen van Ostade, 1673
Portrait of the Dwarf MicholJuan Carreno de Miranda, c. 1680
Interior of a TownhouseCornelius de Man, late 17th c.
Pet Portraits
Two Hunting DogsJacopo Bassano, 1548
Two GreyhoundsSimon de Vlieger, 1610
Dog StudiesJan Breughel the Elder, 1616
DogGiovanna Garzoni, c. 1648
Still Life with Sleeping DogGerrit Dou, 1650
WolfhoundPaulus Potter, 1652
Alexandre-François Desportes
Early 18th Century
White Dog, 1714
Sporting Dogs
Spotted Dog
Study of a Pointer
Sketches of a Kitten
George Stubbs
Late 18th Century
The Pointer, 1766
Duke von Rutland’s Dog Turk, 1778
Norfolk Spaniel, 1778
Water Spaniel
Viscount Gormanston’s White Dog, 1781
Hound and Bitch in a Landscape, 1792
Jean-Jacques Bachelier
Late 18th Century
Dog of the Havana Breed, 1768
Malteses
Mousetrap with Cat and Kittens in a Basket
Angola Cat