Two large dogs approach a man lying unconscious and mostly buried in the snow in this horizontal painting. The head of the man comes toward us, at the lower center of the composition, and the dogs are close to us. In the center of the painting, a large tan and white dog has short, glossy fur and floppy ears, and its jowly mouth hangs open with the pink tongue visible. It paws at the snow partially covering most of the body of the man, who wears an olive-green coat with a fur collar and white shirt. The dog looks up to our right, and its body and white-tipped tail recede diagonally into the…
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Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler

painter Sir Edwin Landseer (British, 1802 - 1873)

1820

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 189 × 237 cm (74 7/16 × 93 5/16 in.) ; framed: 219.71 × 267.65 × 15.88 cm (86 1/2 × 105 3/8 × 6 1/4 in.) ; framed weight: 81.647 kg (180 lb.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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