Animals and Birds

Animals usually appear as props for riders to ride, shearers to shear, and for lap dogs in family portraits … they are even just adjuncts for Chinese painters of plants and flowers. Few painters paint animals for their own sake, Fabritius and Durer were rarities.

Caravaggio - Sacrificial Ewe	Xu Beihong - Cat	Roberts - The Shearing Shed
Magritte - The Forest Horse	Remington - The Trapper	Xu Beihong - Horses
	The 4horse paintings are great examples of different genres: from the illusionist of the COBRA miovement, to the magic of the the American West, the freedom of wild Asian horses, and the realism of Caravaggio. Three birds below: a European finch, the Chinese rooster, and the ubiquitous duck. The colors of Fabritiu's goldfinch are marvellously accurate.
Caravaggio - St. Paul's horse		Manet - dog in 'The Train.'
Fabritius - The Goldfinch
Qi-Baishi - grasshopper	Xu Beihong - The Cock
Albrecht Durer - hare	Qi Baishi - insects: stick insect	Qi Baishi - Ducks