All tours · TOUR 17

Animals in Art

Emperor Huizong's birds, Leonardo's bear, Rosa Bonheur's horses and Rousseau's lion: paintings where animals take the lead.

Rooms 1 and 2 are free for everyone.

From room 3, a Pyeongye subscription opens the rest. Every room has notes on reading its painting.

Finches and bambooEmperor Huizong1A Bear WalkingLeonardo da Vinci2A Hunting ScenePiero di Cosimo3Gibbons in a LandscapeSesson Shūkei 雪村周継4Two Cows and a Young Bull beside a Fence in a MeadowPaulus Potter5Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize StallionStipple Master6Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a DogJean Honoré Fragonard7Pichhwai for the Festival of CowsUnknown artist · India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?)8Two Draft Horses with a Sleeping DriverThéodore Géricault9Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize StallionTara10The Horse FairRosa Bonheur11The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)Frederic Remington12The Home of the HeronGeorge Inness13At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec14The Repast of the LionHenri Rousseau15
  1. 1Finches and bambooEmperor Huizong · early 12th centuryFree
  2. 2A Bear WalkingLeonardo da Vinci · ca. 1482–85Free
  3. 3A Hunting ScenePiero di Cosimo · ca. 1494–1500Members
  4. 4Gibbons in a LandscapeSesson Shūkei 雪村周継 · ca. 1570Members
  5. 5Two Cows and a Young Bull beside a Fence in a MeadowPaulus Potter · 1647Members
  6. 6Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize StallionStipple Master · ca. 1712Members
  7. 7Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a DogJean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769Members
  8. 8Pichhwai for the Festival of CowsUnknown artist · India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?) · late 18th centuryMembers
  9. 9Two Draft Horses with a Sleeping DriverThéodore Géricault · 1820–22Members
  10. 10Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize StallionTara · 1845–46Members
  11. 11The Horse FairRosa Bonheur · 1852–55Members
  12. 12The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)Frederic Remington · 1890Members
  13. 13The Home of the HeronGeorge Inness · 1893Members
  14. 14At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1899Members
  15. 15The Repast of the LionHenri Rousseau · ca. 1907Members
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