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