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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
(click to visit an artwork in detail)
Image | DB ARTIST Full Name | Title | Date for Caption | DB ARTIST Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Georges Aglane | Portrait of a Girl Holding a Guinea Pig | 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 | ||
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 | |
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) |