This presentation gives an overview of the history of pet keeping from the fifteenth through the eighteenth century.

1. The Rise of Pet Keeping
15th-18th centuries

2. Hunters, Dogs, and Horses

3. Devonshire Hunting Tapestries
1420s

7. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc
de Berry, c. 1440

8. Hunt in the Forest
Paolo Uccello, c. 1470

11. Hunters in the Snow (Detail)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

12. Hounds Bringing Down a Boar
Frans Snyders, early 17th c.

13. Huntsman Feeding His Dogs
Herman Saftleven, c. 1625

14. Prince Baltasar Carlos as Hunter (Detail)
Diego Velázquez, 1636

15. The Hunter’s Trophy with Dog and Owl
David de Coninck, 1660s

16. Anna Maria Luisa de’Medici in Hunting Dress
Jan Frans van Douven, c. 1695

17. Equestrian Portrait of a Couple
Gonzales Coques, Late 17th c.

18. People with Their Pets

19. Portrait of a Lady with a Puppy
Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1534

20. Clarissa Strozzi
Titian, 1542

21. Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani
Lavinia Fontana, c. 1595

22. Margaret of Austria
Bartolomé Gonzales y Serrano, 1609

23. Alathea Howard, Countess of Arundel
Peter Paul Rubens, 1620

24. Self-Portrait in Oriental Attire with Poodle
Rembrandt, 1631

25. James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony Van Dyck, c. 1635

26. Ferdinand of Austria
Diego Velázquez, 1636

27. Big Dog, Dwarf, and Boy
Joannes Fijt, 1652

28. A Man with a Cat
Christoph Paudiss, mid-17th c.

29. Two Children with a Cat
Judith Leister, mid-17th c.

30. A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel
Judith Leyster, mid-17th c.

31. A Boy Ridding His Dog of Fleas
Gerard ter Borch, c. 1665

32. A Lady with a Pet Dog
Pieter Cornelisz van Sligelandt, 1672

33. The Cottage Dooryard
Adriaen van Ostade, 1673

34. Portrait of the Dwarf Michol
Juan Carreno de Miranda, c. 1680

35. Interior of a Townhouse
Cornelius de Man, late 17th c.

36. Pet Portraits

37. Two Hunting Dogs
Jacopo Bassano, 1548

38. Two Greyhounds
Simon de Vlieger, 1610

39. Dog Studies
Jan Breughel the Elder, 1616

40. Dog
Giovanna Garzoni, c. 1648

41. Still Life with Sleeping Dog
Gerrit Dou, 1650

42. Wolfhound
Paulus Potter, 1652

43. Alexandre-François Desportes
Early 18th Century

44. White Dog, 1714

45. Sporting Dogs

46. Spotted Dog

47. Study of a Pointer

48. Sketches of a Kitten

49. George Stubbs
Late 18th Century

50. The Pointer, 1766

51. Duke von Rutland’s Dog Turk, 1778

52. Norfolk Spaniel, 1778

53. Water Spaniel

54. Viscount Gormanston’s White Dog, 1781

55. Hound and Bitch in a Landscape, 1792

56. Jean-Jacques Bachelier
Late 18th Century

57. Dog of the Havana Breed, 1768

58. Malteses

59. Mousetrap with Cat and Kittens in a Basket

60. Angola Cat