A Deerhound
Artist: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, 1802–1873)
Original Dimensions: 12 1/16" x 16 1/16"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1826) "Deerhounds were bred to hunt deer by running them down, a method known as coursing or deer stalking. In this study, Landseer sympathetically evoked his subject’s vivacity and poise. The dog appears in a similar pose, nuzzling under the hand of its master, the Duke of Gordon, in Landseer’s Scene in the Scottish Highlands (ca. 1825–28; private collection). The painting was one of the artist’s first aristocratic hunting portraits, and it bolstered his meteoric rise as Britain’s premier painter of animal and sporting pictures." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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