Post a Pup Sunday! Art: Ladies and their canine companions (1500-1878)

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This is to remind everyone that we are doing every other week for Pup Sundays and the same for Caturdays. So if Caturday Saturday is up, it means the Pups will be the following week. This gives people a chance to plan something to share with everyone. 

Today, I wanted to share some examples of different styles of art that showcase our canine friends and truly a lady's best friend in so many ways. Animals can heal the heart and provide unconditional love; we can give the same back without restraints. It is easy to see why they inspire such devotion and inspiration.



1532/33 Portrait Of a Lady with a Lapdog, Bronzino



1665 Portrait of a Lady with a Lapdog, Rembrandt


c.1769 Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson, Jean Honoré Fragonard


1768/69 Portrait of Madame Freret Déricour, Joseph Siffred Duplessis



1782 Lady Hamilton as Nature, George Romney (she is a scandalous woman with an interesting but tragic life-Emma Hamilton it is worth reading about for history buffs or feminists)



1790/91 A Young Woman with a Dog, Torii Kiyonaga




c.1824/25 Lady Maria Conyngham, Sir Thomas Lawrence



1860s Portrait of Princess Dagmar of Denmark with her dog, Andreas Herman Hunaeus




1878 Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Jules Victor Clairin





1878 Girl with Dog, Mary Cassatt



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