Dancing dogs

Morland, George (1763-1804) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
18th century
Height:
76.2 cm  (30 in.)
Width:
63.8 cm  (25 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Private collectionFormerly owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), inv. no. 52.116.

Description

In the center four dogs, three of them wearing human clothes, and two of them dancing, surrounded by two boys, a young seated womem holding a child (obviously all of them are the audience), as well as by a man (obviously the dogs' master, indicated by the whip), and another man playing musette (bagpipes).

Iconclass

34A34
training of performing dog

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Musette [3768]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3828