Famous Animal Paintings

Cattle in the meadow, deer in the woods and lions in the studio.

128 paintings, with works by Jean-François Millet, Aelbert Cuyp, Peter Paul Rubens and Gustave Courbet. Most often they suit the living room, bedroom and guest room.

Showing 1 to 48 of 128 paintings

Large painting of people in a crowded park, brushstrokes are dots.

Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89 Art Institute of Chicago

Large painting of soldier asleep outdoors surrounded by two women and a cupid.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo, c. 1742–45 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of two fishermen in small wooden boat on rocky seas.

Winslow Homer The Herring Net, 1885 Art Institute of Chicago

View of Delphi with a Procession, Claude Lorrain, 1673, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain View of Delphi with a Procession, 1673 Art Institute of Chicago

Large English country landscape painting, farmers with horses, green trees.

John Constable Stoke-by-Nayland, 1836 Art Institute of Chicago

Haystacks: Autumn, Jean-François Millet, ca. 1874, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet Haystacks: Autumn, ca. 1874 The Met

Young Ladies of the Village, Gustave Courbet, 1851–52, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet Young Ladies of the Village, 1851–52 The Met

A young, smiling boy in a ruffled collar, hat, and cumberbun rides outdoors on a brown ram, a small whip held aloft in his hand.

Francisco de Goya Boy on a Ram, 1786–87 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a small stream in the middle of the woods. In the center of the painting, there is a small waterfall over a large boulder.

Albert Bierstadt Mountain Brook, 1863 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), 1887–88 Art Institute of Chicago

The Repast of the Lion, Henri Rousseau, ca. 1907, oil on canvas

Henri Rousseau The Repast of the Lion, ca. 1907 The Met

Dense and varied landscape with open fields, groves of bushy trees, and a row of thin conifers. A light-blue river tranverses the canvas, and a church steeple emerges from the trees at left of center.

Édouard Vuillard Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods, 1899 Art Institute of Chicago

A heronǳ silhouette sits amongst the brush in a golden hued forest.

George Inness The Home of the Heron, 1893 Art Institute of Chicago

Dozens of figures in a brown field filled with discarded corn silks form two rows and sit across from each other husking corn, a farm in the background.

Eastman Johnson Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket, 1876 Art Institute of Chicago

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, John Singleton Copley, 1771, oil on canvas

John Singleton Copley Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, 1771 The Met

The Shepherd's Song, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891, oil on canvas

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes The Shepherd's Song, 1891 The Met

Stag at Sharkey's, George Bellows, 1909, oil on canvas

George Bellows Stag at Sharkey's, 1909 Cleveland Museum of Art

A plucked chicken, a few stray feathers remaining, hangs upside-down by one foot, illuminated. Behind it the metal hinges and wood panels of a door are visible.

William Michael Harnett For Sunday's Dinner, 1888 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a cabin set below a dark blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Behind it is a field of many small white dots. In front, a dark-skinned woman sits and a dark-skinned child plays among roaming chickens and dogs in a fenced-in yard.

Horace Pippin Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931–37 Art Institute of Chicago

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey, India, c. 1705–1710, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

India A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey, c. 1705–1710 Art Institute of Chicago

Long scroll ink painting depicting people with their animals and belongings crossing a river.

Unknown artist Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) 元朝 Art Institute of Chicago

A Hunting Scene, Piero di Cosimo, ca. 1494–1500, tempera and oil transferred to Masonite

Piero di Cosimo A Hunting Scene, ca. 1494–1500 The Met

A tired-looking brown and white cow lies down on a patch of dry earth, a dark-brown bull and cow standing behind her against an overcast sky.

Paulus Potter Two Cows and a Young Bull beside a Fence in a Meadow, 1647 Art Institute of Chicago

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, ca. 1449, tempera, silver, and gold on wood

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, ca. 1449 The Met

A man with sparse brown facial hair stands in a full-length black robe on a multicolored tiled floor, a white and brown dog behind him.

Giovanni Battista Moroni Gian Lodovico Madruzzo, 1551–52 Art Institute of Chicago

Lion, Unknown artist, after 1200, fresco, mounted on canvas

Unknown artist Lion, after 1200 The Met

St. George on white horse, piercing green, gold dragon

Bernat Martorell Saint George and the Dragon, 1434–35 Art Institute of Chicago

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama, Basawan, Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), c. 1590-1595, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Basawan The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama, Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), c. 1590-1595 Art Institute of Chicago