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BabsG | 09:36 Mon 08th Jan 2007 | Arts & Literature
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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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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!
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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.
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.
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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.
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Have now scanned the picture and can post it on here if you can tell me how to do that!
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.

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Thanks for the help. Okay, here goes:

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!
It looks like it's a corner of a larger image. Where did you find this picture?
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!
Actually the darker animal now looks like a monkey to me! Look at his 'arms'.
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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.
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"
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Wow! Thanks drchasuble. How on earth did you find that? Many thanks to all of you for your help.
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.
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Thank God for geeks. The world needs more of them.
"celebrated monkey gladiator" has to be the phrase of the week.
I know Quizmonkey, such a great phrase! I just wish it was mine and not wikipedia's.

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