look at the dog

a blog wherein I deposit all images of dogs I find in various pieces of artwork and photographs, with primary attention paid to images where the dog is (wrongfully, always wrongfully) not the main subject of the image.

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There’s only two genres of dogs in medieval paintings and they look like this

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Ah yes… the little yappy rat and Lord Foog the 2st

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If any blog should be able to confirm this to be true, its this one.

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Reg Cartwright (British b.1938), Viaduct, 1992, Oil on board - This is the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Trevor, Wales.

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Feodor Zakharov (Russian/American 1882-1967), Glistening Sea, Oil on canvas

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Saul Kovner, Hot Summer Night, 1946. Oil on canvas.

Photo: ashcan_daily Instagram

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Hans Ole Brasen

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[weepingwidar]

Leonard Koscianski (American, 1952) - The Astronomer (2025)

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[jareckiworld]

Axel Krause — The Morning (acrylic on canvas, 1997)

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[gacougnol]

Hugues Erre

Lozère

France 1975

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[cosmonautroger]

Miguel Mackinlay, tête-à-tête, 1930

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

When cousin Sven visits from Norway (with offer of marriage) and... well the fashions are different there.

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[1five1two]

Jun Kumaori.

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[henk-heijmans]

Lviv, Ukraine, 2007 - by Pentti Sammallahti (1950), Finnish

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Lviv, Ukraine, 2007 - by Pentti Sammallahti (1950), Finnish

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The Roma camp in Rżąka near Kraków, 1960's - by Adam Bujak (1942), Polish

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[pwlanier]

“Six Alcoholics”. 2026

Parker L.

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[pwlanier]

Scamp and I have been taking it easy lately.

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Jan Steen, "Peasants Merrymaking Outside an Inn," circa 1676. Oil on canvas

Courtesy Alain Truong

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I was so intrigued by the dogs I spotted in this painting that I decided to try to a closer look. I was delighted to find such a high resolution image of it here!