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Animals

11,033 works

Engraving of a mounted warrior with raised sword trampling a fallen soldier on a bridge, with a city behind.

Horatius Cocles on horseback, trampling a fallen soldier

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of a mounted classical warrior with a staff, accompanied by a foot soldier holding a standard, under a cloudy sky.

Scipio Africanus on horseback preceeded by a foot soldier holding a standard

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Oil sketch of a brown and white cow standing before a reddish barn wall, painted in loose brushwork.

Study of a Standing Cow, Farmington

Samuel Colman, 1870

Engraving of two armored riders on horseback holding staffs with banners reading Tito and Vespasian.

Titus and Vespanian both on horseback

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Loose oil study of a brown and white cow grazing with its head down on a dirt ground, with a barn wall behind.

Study of a Grazing Cow

Samuel Colman, 1870

Loose lithograph sketch of a dog looking up at a parrot on a table, with a moonlit landscape and distant train behind.

The Dog and the Parrot

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899

Engraving of a nude helmeted man holding a banner beside a seated lion, with a town in the background.

Naked man wearing an elaborate helmet viewed from behind holding a banner, a lion seated on the ground

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-1534

Pen and ink drawing of a woman and a man on horseback at a hunt, with other riders and trees in the background.

Man and Woman Riding Horses at Hunt

Francis Arthur Fraser, n.d.

Engraving of a robed musician playing a lyre beside a bear and dog in a rocky wooded landscape.

Orpheus Charming the Animals

Marcantonio Raimondi, c. 1505

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris with nude goddesses, a youth, Cupid, and chariots in the clouds above a wooded landscape.

The Judgment of Paris

Marco Dente, 1515-27

Engraving of armored men and mounted horsemen with spears gathered before a brick tower with arched windows.

The Emperor Meeting the Warrior

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1516-17

Engraving of a bacchanalian procession with Silenus riding an ass, satyrs, maenads, a lion, and putti in a classical setting.

The procession of Silenus who is carried on an ass preceeded by a bacchant playing the cymbals and other figures

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1531

Engraving of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion among classical ruins with arches and broken columns, dated 1528.

Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion

Agostino Veneziano, 1528

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with studies of horses in various poses, plus hands, feet and heads, by Delacroix.

Studies of Horses, Hands, and Feet (recto); Studies of Heads and Figures (verso)

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1822-27

Engraving of a nude muscular man in a plumed helmet holding a flag, standing over a lion, with a town in the background.

Man with a Flag

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Watercolor drawing of a preacher in a pulpit addressing a seated congregation of men and women in a church interior.

A Sermon in a Village Church

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1630

Engraving of nude men climbing rocks beside trees, a clothed youth standing at left and a hilltop town in the distance.

The Climbers

Agostino Veneziano, 1524

Grey wash drawing of a rocky mountain landscape with pine trees, a natural arch, and two travellers with laden horses on a ro

A Mountainous Landscape with Travellers on a Road

Jan van Aken, ca. 1650-55

Grey paper sheet with chalk studies of feet, hands, heads, a woman with a basket, and a bearded nude man in a turban.

Study for Miraculous Draught of Fishes (?)

Ink and wash sketch of a mounted rider under a parasol amid robed figures and a crowd along arched street walls.

Study for "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage"

Eugène Delacroix, 1832-33

Pencil sketch of a hooded rider on horseback surrounded by turbaned attendants, with a parasol above and city buildings behin

Study for "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage"

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1855-56

Pencil drawing of a Chinese vase with a ring handle, cloud and fret patterns, and a lion-mask motif on a pale background.

A Chinese Vase

Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart, mid-19th century

Painted design for a wall panel with a putto medallion, a putto playing with dogs, and red, blue and gold borders.

Design for Wall Decor Painted with Putti and Dogs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, before 1889

Vertical engraved ornament panel with putti, scrolling foliage, a tiered urn, and rabbits at the base.

Ornament Panel: Four Children with a Cat and a Dog

Giovanni Pietro Birago and Zoan Andrea, c. 1505/1515

Colored design drawing of a symmetrical arabesque with cherubs, grapevines, scrolls, and three recumbent lions at the base.

Design for an Arabesque

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, ca. 1780-93

Pencil sketch of a raven on a rail, with a separate study of a clawed foot and handwritten notes below.

A Raven Perched on a Rail

Charles Meryon, mid-19th century

Watercolor landscape with a rider, sheep and dogs on a riverbank, ruins, a bare tree and rolling hills under cloudy skies.

Figures on a Country Road

Louis Gabriel Moreau, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a rococo stucco design with a cartouche of small figures, scrollwork, and winged motifs.

Design for Stucco Decorations with a Cartouche at Left

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, ca. 1725-40

Orange woodcut print of an animal and carved swirling patterns, with a small pink shape at center, on cream paper.

Maoris and Animals

Paul Gauguin, 1896/97

Colored drawing of a pulpit design with a robed preacher, winged angel, cherub on clouds and crimson drapery.

Design for a Pulpit

Augustin Pajou, n.d.

Sepia drawing of an ornate urn on a pedestal with sphinxes, fruit swags, a satyr and putto relief, birds and flowers.

Wine Cooler or Vase on a Classical Pedestal

Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, ca. 1784

Woodblock print of five small green birds perched on a branch with red autumn leaves against a pale blue background.

Small Birds on a Twig

Ohara Koson, 1900