Animal painting

416 artworks

Auspicious Cranes

Emperor Huizong, 1112

A Chameleon

Ustad Mansur, 1612

A Barbet (Himalayan blue-throated bird)

Ustad Mansur, 1615

Zebra

Ustad Mansur, 1621

Untitled (Dodo)

Ustad Mansur, 1625

Study of a Gold-mantled Chloropsis

Ustad Mansur, 1640

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname), figure 46

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Plate #23- Musa paradisiaca, Caligo teucer and Cnemidophorus lemniscatus

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Pineapple and cockroaches

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XX. (Thysania agrippina)

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLVIII

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Metamorphosis of a Butterfly

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Granatapfel

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensiam

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLV

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Musa paradisiaca

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Rote Lilie

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Inflorescence of Banana

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1710

Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) and a False Coral Snake (Anilius scytale)

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1710

Plate LXXXV, from Erucarum Ortus Alimentum et Paradoxa Metamorphosis (1679-1717)

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1717

Kenilworth Castle

David Cox, 1804