Paintings

[BabsG]

Can anyone please direct me to a comprehensive art gallery type site. I have to identify a painting of a black dog fighting a white dog (at least that is what it looks like). The painting appears to be monochrome. All my searches end up on dog-fighting sites. Many thanks.

[Quizmonkey]

Gallery sites tend to feature just the paintings that that gallery contains - so not very comprehensive. It sounds like a needle in a haystack. I think you need to try and determine the rough period of the painting, then make a few intelligent guesses at the artist and search their works. Good luck!

[BabsG]

Thanks Quizmonkey. I have spent quite a few hours in Smiths looking through art books with no success. Still at least it is expanding my knowledge of art - which is rather poor at present.

[shaneystar2]

Babs ..if you can scan the picture and post it on here someone may twig who the artist is .
Can you narrow it down to a breed of dog and era.Perhaps in the Victorian genre ..they were very fond of animal paintings.

[BabsG]

Thanks Shaneystar. I am always amazed by your breadth of knowledge and good sense. I will try to scan this - it is from the current Macmillan quiz - and hope that someone can give me a clue.

[BabsG]

Have now scanned the picture and can post it on here if you can tell me how to do that!

[B00]

If you've scanned the picture I'm presuming it's stored somewhere on your computer (possibly desktop?). This site....

http://photobucket.com/

allows you to upload a pic from your PC and give it a URL which you'll be able to post here.

[BabsG]

Thanks for the help. Okay, here goes:

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r232/llynfi hmg/quizpic.jpg

Hope that works!

[Quizmonkey]

Blimey, that's tricky! It looks like just a pencil or charcoal skecth, ie from the notebooks of an artist more famous for full-blown (colour) paintings. It might have been developed into a 'proper' painting - or it might not.

For some reason it says French to me - and I would say mid to late 19thC. But just a hunch really. Look forward to seeing this solved!

[drchasuble]

It looks like it's a corner of a larger image. Where did you find this picture?

[drchasuble]

And the shape of the darker animal's head and the way it's holding the white dog makes me think that it could be a bear although it's a touch small. Confusing!

[Quizmonkey]

Actually the darker animal now looks like a monkey to me! Look at his 'arms'.

[BabsG]

I agree with all of you that the image is confusing. I also have wavered between dog and monkey with the black one. His front doesn't match the back end. As I said in an earlier post the image comes from the current Macmillan quiz.

[drchasuble]

It's called Jacco Macacco versus Puss by Edwin Henry Landseer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey-baiting
Scroll down to the bit about Jacco Macacco. Apparently "a celebrated monkey gladiator"

[BabsG]

Wow! Thanks drchasuble. How on earth did you find that? Many thanks to all of you for your help.

[drchasuble]

Sheer boredom at work I'm afraid!! I just get like a dog with a monkey, I mean bone, with things like this so it was just a case of googling and googling.

Geeky I know.

[BabsG]

Thank God for geeks. The world needs more of them.

[Quizmonkey]

"celebrated monkey gladiator" has to be the phrase of the week.

[drchasuble]

I know Quizmonkey, such a great phrase! I just wish it was mine and not wikipedia's.