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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.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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!
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.
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.
Thanks for the help. Okay, here goes:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r232/llynfi hmg/quizpic.jpg
Hope that works!
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r232/llynfi hmg/quizpic.jpg
Hope that works!
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!
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!
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"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey-baiting
Scroll down to the bit about Jacco Macacco. Apparently "a celebrated monkey gladiator"