A long-haired, small white dog with tawny-brown ears and spots sits on a garnet-red cushion in this loosely painted vertical portrait. The dog looks just to our left with large, round, black eyes under perked eyebrows. Long, floppy ears hang to either side of its short muzzle. A snub black nose glistens over its downward curving mouth. The long fur on the dog’s body is painted with visible strokes in white and silvery gray. Its thin front legs are braced near a black and white ball, which rests at the edge of the cushion near the lower right corner of the composition. The background is…
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A King Charles Spaniel

Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

c. 1866

Medium
oil on linen
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46 x 38 cm (18 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.) ; framed: 66 x 57.8 x 8.9 cm (26 x 22 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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