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A Deerhound

1826
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 808
Deerhounds were bred to hunt deer by running them down, a method known as coursing or deer stalking. In this study, Landseer sympathetically evoked his subject’s vivacity and poise. The dog appears in a similar pose, nuzzling under the hand of its master, the Duke of Gordon, in Landseer’s Scene in the Scottish Highlands (ca. 1825–28; private collection). The painting was one of the artist’s first aristocratic hunting portraits, and it bolstered his meteoric rise as Britain’s premier painter of animal and sporting pictures.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Deerhound
  • Artist: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
  • Date: 1826
  • Medium: Oil on board
  • Dimensions: 12 1/16 × 16 1/16 in. (30.6 × 40.8 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, 2018
  • Object Number: 2018.289.4
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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