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Animals

11,188 works

Pen drawing of a horseman in a tricorn hat on a rearing horse, with a river, bridge and town behind him.

Shield Knave: A Horseman

Johannes Brandenberg, 1712 or later

Red chalk drawing on blue paper of two horsemen on rearing horses, one striking at the other, with shrubs in a landscape.

Two Fighting Horsemen

Pandolfo Lorenzo Hopfer, 1693

Pen drawing of a rearing horse and armored rider leaping before onlookers and a stone city wall.

Marcus Curtius

Samuel Stettler, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a pastoral landscape with seated couples and a nude man hunting under billowing clouds and trees.

Pastoral Scene: Men Hunting Birds, Couples Seated on Ground

Possibly after Bernard van Orley, n.d.

Engraving of a seated woman with her hand on a lion, beside an open book, columns, arch, and balance scales.

La Force

Jean Chartier, 16th century

Etching of a nude figure held by a grotesque man beneath a monstrous shadowy creature, with a figure reaching up below.

Plate 62 from "Los Caprichos": Who would have thought it? (Quien lo creyera!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Chromolithograph of a flower bouquet, fruit, and a hummingbird on a balustrade, with a river landscape beyond.

Landscape - Fruit and Flowers

Frances Flora Bond Palmer, 1862

Pen and brown wash sketch of a man seated on a lion, reaching toward its head.

Man Mounting Lion

Salvator Rosa, n.d.

Etching of a nude woman carried aloft by grotesque figures, with a cat holding an umbrella, by Goya, 1799.

Plate 65 from "Los Caprichos": Where is mom going? (Donde vá mamá?)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of two travelers and a horse on a path beneath dense, dark trees in a forest, with a pale sky opening above.

Two Travelers in a Forest (Le Cavalier en forêt et le piéton)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1854

Engraving of a lark and two smaller birds in a landscape with a river, hills, and towns in the distance.

Lark and Two Smaller Birds

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Engraving of a toucan and a crested bird before a landscape of mountains, a village, and boats on water.

Toucan and Another Tropical Bird

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Engraving of two birds in a landscape with a city, stone bridge, sailboat, palm and willow trees.

Waxwing and Another Bird

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Engraving of a magpie and another bird on a branch, with a watermill, cottage and cow in the rural background.

Magpie and Another Bird

Adriaen Collaert, c. 1600

Etching of a fallen horse and a rider on a battlefield, with figures and a horse in the background, captioned 'Siempre sucede

Plate 8 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'It always happens' (Siempre sucede)

Francisco Goya, 1810 (published 1863)

Engraving of a crowned rider on a white horse in a forest hunt, with a stag, hunting dogs and attendants around him.

The Deer Hunt of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and Ubaldino Ubaldini

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, 1589

Etched landscape of a hilltop church, trees, and a herder with cattle in the foreground.

Veüe de Conflans

Reinier Nooms, mid-17th century

Daumier lithograph of bathers in shallow water, a woman with a parasol, a child, a dog, and clothing left on the shore.

Madame Greluche: “Oh, Gustave, how good! A real soothing warmth! Look at our son Loulou; the cute face he makes!” Mr.…

Honoré Daumier, 1839

Etching of an owl on a pedestal above a group of cloaked old men with grotesque faces gazing upward.

Plate 53 from "Los Caprichos": What a golden beak! (Que pico de Oro!)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of a ruined arch with a stone basin, where many birds perch in pine trees and fly across the sky.

Abreuvoir d'oiseaux (The Birds' Watering Place)

Quentin-Pierre Chedel after François Boucher, 1754

Etching of a kneeling man with clasped hands, surrounded by laughing grotesque faces and a hooded shadowy figure.

Plate 58 from "Los Caprichos": Swallow it, dog (Tragala perro)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of two nude figures, a horned goat, two cats, a skull and a jug, from Goya's Los Caprichos plate 60.

Pllate 60 from "Los Caprichos": Trials (Ensayos)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Etching of two withered witch-like figures with a bowl of ointment and a leaping goat-like creature above them.

Plate 67 from "Los Caprichos": Wait till you've been anointed (Aguarda que te unten)

Francisco Goya, 1799

Engraved street scene of Fulton Street and its market hall, with horse carts, barrels and pedestrians on cobblestones.

Fulton Street & Market, New York (The Bennett View of Fulton Street)

William James Bennett, 1834

Lithograph of a cuirassier in plumed helmet restraining a rearing horse, with mounted soldiers in the distance.

Cuirassier on Foot Restraining His Rearing Horse

Carle Vernet, 1817-36

Pencil sketch of a horse with two nude riders, plus smaller studies of figures and horse legs on pale paper.

Studies of a Horse with Two Nude Riders and a Male Torso

Michelangelo, 1508

Hand-colored caricature of a fantastical parade with exaggerated mounted soldiers and satirical banners on a cobbled street.

Grand Fantastical Parade, New-York, December 2, 1833

David Claypoole Johnston, 1833

Woodblock print of a grosbeak perched on a branch beside pink marvel of Peru flowers and blue-green leaves.

Japanese Grosbeak and Marvel of Peru (Ikaru, oshiroi no hana), from an untitled series of flowers and birds

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1834

Woodblock print of a yellow-brown bird perched on a dark branch with blue-green wisteria leaves and vertical calligraphy.

Bird on silky wisteria

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830s-1840s

Japanese woodblock print of two birds on autumn maple branches, one black and white, one rust-red, with calligraphy.

Two birds on maple branch

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830s

Sepia bird's-eye lithograph of New York and Brooklyn with ships crowding the harbor and dense city blocks along the waterfron

Bird's Eye View of New York and Brooklyn

John Bachmann, 1851

Woodblock print of two swallows flying near hanging wisteria blossoms, with a yellow bird perched on a branch above.

Swallow, yellow bird, and wisteria

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830s-1840s