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Guinea Pigs in Historical Art Museum
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Historical Paintings & Drawings & Sculpture
From the 1500s through early 20th century, see master painters and folk artists use the guinea pig as the main subject or ornamentation. Guinea pigs were believed to have been introduced to Europe between the 1550s and 1580s and quickly became subjects for painters.
The art gallery below is arranged by artist name. Click for a link to high resolution view of this artist's works (and to help find any non-obvious guinea pigs). Or jump to the Catalogue.
Trust me, the guinea pigs are indeed there! And usually, they're eating!
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Artists
Catalogue
Museum Catalogue
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Image | DB ARTIST Full Name | Title | Date for Caption | DB ARTIST Nationality |
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Georges Aglane | Portrait of a Girl Holding a Guinea Pig | 1938 | Belgian | |
Aniello Ascione | Flowers, Fruit, and Guinea Pigs | Flemish | ||
James S. Baillie | Two Guinea Pigs in a Garden | 1846 | American | |
Alfred Barber | Escaped: Two Rabbits and a Guinea Pig | 1880 | English | |
Jacob Samuel Beck | Two Guinea Pigs with Cabbages and Onions | German | ||
Jacob Samuel Beck | Guinea Pig with Hazelnuts and Cucumbers | German | ||
Jacob Samuel Beck | Calico Guinea Pig with Cabbages | German | ||
Jacob Samuel Beck | White Guinea Pig with Young and Fruit | German | ||
Jacob Samuel Beck | Still Life with Guinea Pigs | 1765-1770 | German | |
Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay | Flower Stiles with Sea Pigs | French | ||
Ernst Wilhelm Bernhardi | Animals in the Landscape | Polish | ||
Felice Fortunato | Still Life of Flowers in an Urn | Italian | ||
Bartolomeo Bimbi | Still life of Grapes and Other Fruit with Two Guinea Pigs | Italian | ||
Sara Bisschop | A Little Girl with a Guinea Pig | Dutch | ||
Faustino Bocchi | A Trial At Law Among Animals And Pygmies | Italian | ||
Pieter Boel | Rabbits, Guinea-Pigs, Roe-Deer and a Peacock in an Ornamental Garden | Flemish | ||
Pieter Boel | An Animal Scene | Flemish | ||
Jakob Bogdány | Oiseaux et Hamsters | Hungarian | ||
Jakob Bogdány | Fruit with Birds and Guinea-pig | Hungarian | ||
Jakob Bogdány | Guinea pig, Cat, Cockerel | 1710-1720 | Hungarian | |
Jakob Bogdány | Guinea pig, Capuchin monkey, and Fruit | 1710-1720 | Hungarian | |
Jakob Bogdány | A Cockerel, Chickens, Other Birds With Guinea Pig | Hungarian | ||
Joan Mestre i Bosch | Young Girl with Guinea Pig | Italian | ||
Felice Boselli | Kitchen with Live and Dead birds and a Guinea Pig, | 1790-1793 | Italian | |
Felice Boselli | Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Cats and Guinea pig | 1695 | Italian | |
Felice Boselli | Turkey, Ducks, and Guinea Pig in a Landscape | Italian | ||
Felice Boselli | Pantry with Game, Cheese, Lemons, Cat, Dove and Guinea Pig | 1690 | Italian | |
Domenico Brandi | Guinea Pigs with Chickens | Italian | ||
Norbertine Bresslern-Roth | Two Guinea Pigs | 1910 | Austrian | |
Norbertine Bresslern-Roth | Guinea Pigs | 1921 | Austrian | |
Norbertine Bresslern-Roth | Two Guinea Pigs | 1917 | Austrian | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Garland of Fruit surrounding a Depiction of Cybele Receiving Gifts from Personifications of the Four Seasons | 1620-1622 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Flora and Zephyr | 1617 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Virgin and Child Surrounded by Fruit and Flowers | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Allegory of Abundance (Venus Ceres Bacchus) | c. 1618 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Fruit and Flower Garland with the Holy Family in a Landscape (Munich) | ca. 1623 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Christ and Mary Magdalene | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | A Garland of Fruits with the Holy Family | c. 1625 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Feast of the Gods (The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis) | ca. 1608 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Three Graces Adorning Statue of Ceres | 1615 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man or The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve | c. 1615 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Venus and Cupid | 1600 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | "Putti Dancing and Making Music", attributed to Hans Rottenhammer (1564-1625) after a composition by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1600-1610, or sometimes attributed the other way around - shown with assorted woodland creatures, including guinea pigs | 1600-1610 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden | 1615 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Allegory of the Sense Taste | c 1618 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | Allegory of the Sense of Smell | c 1617-1618 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Elder) | The Entry of the Animals to Noah's Ark | 1613 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | The Holy Family and the Infant St. John | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Entry of Animals Into the Ark | 1630/1670 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | God Showing Adam the Tree of Knowledge | 1601-1678 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | The Rest on the Flight Into Egypt | 1610-1630 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Allegory of Abundance | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Adam Naming the Animals | c. 1650 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | The Holy Family Within a Garland of Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables Held By Angels | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | The Five Senses: Smell | 1625 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | An Allegory of Water and Earth | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Noli mi tangere | mid 17th century | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Allegory of Abundance: Landscape with Ceres | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Entry of Animals Into Noah's Ark | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Grotto Landscape with Saint Jerome | c.1640 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Allegory of Earth and Water | Flemish | ||
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | An Allegory of Water and Earth (variation) | 1630 | Flemish | |
Jan Brueghel (Younger) | Paradise with the Fall | 1630/1670 | Flemish | |
Nicolas de Bruyn | Rabbits, Squirrel, Guinea pig and Mouse | Flemish | ||
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Fennec fox, The Guinea pig, Aye-aye | 1856 | French | |
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Mouse, Water Rat, and Guinea Pig | 1822 | French | |
Johann Rudolf Bys | Göttermahl (Feast of the Gods) | 1734 | German | |
Giovanni Cassana | Italian | |||
Giovanni Cassana | Guinea Pigs and Fighting Cocks | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Rabbits and Guinea Pigs | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Animali | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | A Farmyard Scene with Rabbit, Guinea Pigs, Apple-Peel, Butterfly on a Plate | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Conigli; e Animali da cortile e porcellini d'India | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Washerwoman, Goat, and Guinea Pig | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Still life with Vegetables and Chicken | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Italian | |||
Giovanni Cassana | Zuffa tra galli | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Chickens, Pigeons, and Guinea Pigs | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Italian | |||
Giovanni Cassana | Defunct | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Natura morta con frutta, cesto, galli e porcellino d'India | 1680-1720 | Italian | |
Giovanni Cassana | Italian | |||
Giovanni Cassana | Roosters and Guinea Pig | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Guinea Pigs | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Rabbits and Guinea Pigs | Italian | ||
Giovanni Cassana | Hens and Guinea Pigs | bet. 1718-1720
| Italian | |
Paolo Castelli | Still Life With Guinea Pigs | Italian | ||
Paolo Castelli | Flowers and Fruit in a Landscape with Guinea PIgs | 17th Century | Italian | |
Giovanni Castiglione | Noah's Sacrifice After the Deluge | 1650 | Italian | |
Giovanni Castiglione | Circe Changing Ulysses' Men into Beasts | 1653 | Italian | |
Giovanni Castiglione | In Front of Noah's Ark | 1650 | Italian | |
Giovanni Castiglione | Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark | 1650 | Italian | |
Giovanni Francesco Castiglione | Orpheus Charming the Animals | Italian | ||
Giovanni Francesco Castiglione | Apollo Pastoral | Italian | ||
Giacomo Francesco Cipper | Partridge, Turkey, Goose, Turtles, and Guinea Pig | 1696-1736 | Austrian | |
Giovanni Francesco Castiglione | John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. | Italian | ||
Currier & Ives | Noah's Ark | 1845 | American | |
Charles Dagomer | King Charles Spaniel and Carlin Playing with Guinea Pigs | 1764 | French | |
John Henry Dell | The Guinea Pig Seller | 1858 | British | |
Alexandre-Francois Desportes | Still Life with a Jug | 1734 | French | |
Edward Julius Detmold | Silver Abyssinian Baby Guinea Pig Eating His Vegetables | English | ||
Adolf Dietrich | Ten Guinea Pigs | 1925 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Guinea Pig and Young and a Milk Jug | 1956 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Abyssinian Guinea Pigs | 1952 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Guinea Pigs in a Basket | 1934 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Nine Guinea Pigs and Edible Flowers | 1953 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Guinea Pigs in a Hay Bale | 1954 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Angora Guinea Family | 1951 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Four Guinea Pigs, Eight Rabbits, and Carrots | 1955 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Three Guinea Pigs - Mother and Young Eating | 1938 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Holding Baby Guinea Pigs | 1948 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Eight Guinea Pigs | 1933 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Six Guinea Pigs in a Stall | 1934 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Guinea Pigs in a Basket | 1941 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Guinea Pigs and Canaries | 1954 | Swiss | |
Adolf Dietrich | Angora Guinea Family and White Shorthair Pig with Carrot | 1925 | Swiss | |
François-Hubert Drouais | Portrait of a Young Boy with Guinea Pig | French | ||
Ben Dykes | Folk Art Boy with Guinea Pig | - | ||
Albert Eckhout | Mameluca woman under a fruiting cashew tree | 1640-1644 | Dutch | |
Sara Bisschop | Dodo with Guinea Pig | 1757 | Dutch | |
English School | Children petting guinea pigs, 19th century, English school | English | ||
English School | Child with Guinea Pig | English | ||
Wijnand Esser | Napoleon's Exile Near Elba | 1814 | Dutch | |
European School | Peacock, Fountain, Guinea Pigs and Fruit | 18th century | European | |
Luca Forte | A Garland of Fruit with Guinea Pigs and Watermelons | 17th century | Italian | |
Jean-Honoré Fragonard | A Nymph Alighting on the Arms of Two Satyrs | 1763 | French | |
French School | Portrait of a boy with Guinea Pig | 19th century | French | |
French School | A Woodland Scene with Rabbits and Guinea Pigs Amongst the Undergrowth | 18th century | French | |
French School | A still life with various fruits in a basket and on a ledge, flowers in a vase, musical instruments and a monkey with a flute | 17th century (1675–1699) | French | |
Jan Fyt | A wooded landscape with a still life of fruit, a guinea pig and a sulphur-crested cockatoo | Flemish | ||
Thomas Gaugain | Guinea Pigs (from a painting by George Morland) | 1789 | British | |
Genoese School | Guinea Pigs in a Landscape | 17th Century | Italian | |
Théodore Géricault | A rooster, three chickens, and a guinea pig | French | ||
German School | Still Life with Flowers, Guinea Pigs | 18th Century | German | |
Paul Gervais | Brazilian Guinea Pigs | 1854 | French | |
Peeter Gijsels | Vertumnus and Pomona | 1660/1680 | Flemish | |
Peeter Gijsels | Still Life with Fruit and Guinea Pigs | 1650 | Flemish | |
Peeter Gijsels | Vertumnus and Pomona at the Palace Terrace | 1660/1680 | Flemish | |
Peeter Gijsels | Still Life Near a Fountain | 1680/1691 | Flemish | |
Jan Pauwel The Younger Gillemans | An architectural capriccio with putti around a swag of fruit, with a parrot and guinea pig | Flemish | ||
Jan Pauwel The Younger Gillemans | Still life of fruit and vegetables in a park landscape, with a macaw and two guinea pigs | 1665-1702 | Flemish | |
Jan Pauwel The Younger Gillemans | Putti with a Festoon of Fruit (and guinea pigs) | Flemish | ||
Jan Pauwel The Younger Gillemans | Allegory of the earth - landscape with ceres, putti and rich fruit trees | 1651-1704 | Flemish | |
Peter Mathys Gillemans | Birds and Guinea Pigs in a Landscape | Flemish | ||
William Goodall | Guinea Pig (Cavia Cobaya) | 1794-1833 | English | |
Abraham Govaerts | Vertumnus and Pomona | 1620 | Flemish | |
Bartolomeo Guidobono | Sleeping Cupid with Two Guinea Pigs | Italian | ||
Claude Marie Guilleminet | Barnyard Scene | 1821-1860 | French | |
Paul Hagelstein | A Young Boy with a Guinea Pig (Seated) | German | ||
Paul Hagelstein | A Young Boy with a Guinea Pig | German | ||
John Harden | Two Men Selling Guinea Pigs, One with an Organ Grinder | British | ||
Johannes Hermans | Flowers on a Landscape, Two Guinea Pigs and a Green Lizard | ca. 1650-65 | Flemish | |
Jacob Hoefnagel | Orpheus charming the animals | Flemish | ||
Joris Hoefnagel | Plate 48 Animalia Quadrupedia et Reptilia (Terra) | 1592 | Flemish | |
Melchior d'Hondecoeter | Guinea Pigs in Poultry Yard | Dutch | ||
Melchior d'Hondecoeter | Rooster Confronting Turkeys, with a Macaw and Guinea Pig in a Classical Landscape... | Dutch | ||
Melchior d'Hondecoeter | A Hoopoe, Hens and a Guinea Pig in a Landscape | 19th century | Dutch | |
Melchior d'Hondecoeter | Poultry and Guinea Pigs | Dutch | ||
Melchior d'Hondecoeter | Guinea Pigs, Doves | Dutch | ||
Gillis de Hondecoeter | Paradise | Dutch | ||
Gillis de Hondecoeter | Orpheus Charming the Animals | Dutch | ||
Maud Humphrey | Guinea Pigs | 1898 | American | |
Edgar Hunt | Cockerel, Rabbit, and Guinea Pigs | 1901 | British | |
Edgar Hunt | Home Pets | 1901 | British | |
Edgar Hunt | Farmyard Pets | 1900 | British | |
Charles Hunt | A Visitor Calls | British | ||
James Inskipp | Boy with a Guinea Pig | British | ||
Italian School | Mountain Landscape with Rooster, Guinea Pig, and Fruit | 1st half of 18th century | Italian | |
Italian School | Still Life with Fowl and Guinea Pigs | 1650 | Italian | |
Robert James | Boy with Guinea Pigs in a Stable | British | ||
Edward Killingworth Johnson | Niminy and Piminy | 1888 | English | |
Jonathan Eastman Johnson | The Pets | 1859 | American | |
Teodor Lubieniecki | Young Bacchus and a Still Life (with Guinea Pigs) | Polish | ||
Teodor Lubieniecki | Still Life with Two Guinea Pigs, Peach and Grapes | Polish | ||
August Macke | Little Walter's Toys | 1912 | German | |
Edward Hasell McCosh | Guinea Pigs Discovering a Basket of Fruit | British | ||
Edward Hasell McCosh | Guinea Pigs with Apples and Plums | British | ||
Louis Mettling | Sharing the bounty | French | ||
Wally Moes | Boy with Guinea Pig in a Box | 1882 | Dutch | |
George Morland | Selling Guinea Pigs (Engraving) | 1789 | English | |
George Morland | Guinea Pigs | 1792 | English | |
George Morland | A Study of Guinea Pigs | English | ||
George Morland | Selling Guinea Pigs | 1789 | English | |
Christofaro Munari | Kitchen Still Life with Vegetables and Poultry | Italian | ||
Henry Turner Munns | The Favoured Guinea Pig | 1865 | British | |
Euphemie Muraton | Guinea Pigs in the Dovecote | French | ||
William James Müller | Boy with his Pets | British | ||
William James Müller | Italian Boy with a Guinea Pig | British | ||
Pietro Navarra | Still Life with Parrot and Two Guinea Pigs | 1680-1699 | Italian | |
Pietro Navarra | Still Life of Fruit in a Landscape with Guinea Pig and a Relief Sculpture | 17th century | Italian | |
Constantijn Netscher | Portrait of a Girl with a Guinea Pig | 1677 | Flemish | |
James Northcote | A Young Lady in a Green Dress, seated in an interior, with Ducks and Guinea Pigs | 1800 | English | |
Octavius Oakley | Interrupted Happiness | English | ||
Giovan Domenico Osnago | Still Life with Guinea Pigs and Parrot | early 18th century | Italian | |
Tom Otterness | Guinea Pigs on a Fire Truck | 2009 | American | |
John Thomas Peele | Feeding the Pets | 1852 | British | |
Thomas Kent Pelham | Continental Girl Holding a Guinea Pig | 1879 | English | |
Albert Pels | Guinea Pig at the Market | American | ||
Armand Petersen | Guinea Pig | Swiss | ||
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