Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910) The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 Oil on canvas, 129.5 cm × 200.7 cm (51.0 in × 79.0 in) MOMA collection - now on view at “Henri Rousseau : A Painter’s Secrets” exhibition at the Barnes Foundation #Lion

Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910) Young Girl in Pink, 1906-7 Oil on canvas, 24 × 18 in. PhAM collection - now on view at “Henri Rousseau : A Painter’s Secrets” at the Barnes “Two small #goats - of the kind that a provincial family might have kept for milk - stand to either side of the girl.”

You know it’s a good wedding when a #dog is invited 🐶 Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910) The Wedding, 1905 Oil on canvas, h163 cm (64.17 in) x w114 cm (44.88 in) Musée de l'Orangerie collection - now on view at “Henri Rousseau : A Painter’s Secrets” exhibition at the Barnes Foundation #DogsInArt

Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910) The Merry Jesters, 1906 Oil on canvas, 145.7 x 113.3 cm (57.3 x 44.6 in.) PhAM collection - now on view at “Henri Rousseau : A Painter’s Secrets” exhibition at the Barnes Foundation

Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910) Tropical Forest with #Monkeys, 1910 Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 162.5 cm (51 × 64 in.) NGA (DC) collection - now on view at “Henri Rousseau : A Painter’s Secrets” exhibition at the Barnes Foundation

This was the first time in all my years visiting the Barnes that I could get a good look at this piece - it’s normally hung super high up over a doorway 😭 Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910) The #Rabbit ‘s Meal, 1908 Oil on canvas Now on view (at eye level!) at “Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets”

#Caturday 🐱: Henri Rousseau (France, 1844-1910) Portrait of Madame M., c. 1895 Oil on canvas, w115 x h198 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris collection - now on view at “Henri Rousseau : A Painter’s Secrets” exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia #CatsInArt

#FishFriday 🐠: Yayoi Kusama (Japan, b.1929) #Fish, 1995 Acrylic on canvas 6 1/4 x 9 in (15.9 x 22.9 cm) www.bonhams.com/auction/3082...

#FrogFriday #FashionFriday : #Frog Brooch, ca. 3rd quarter 20th c. By Donald Claflin (USA, 1935-1979) for Tiffany & Co. 18k gold, ruby eye, diamonds, turquoise, platinum, enamel www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

#FrogFriday 🐸: Yang Shanshen (China, 1913-2004) #Frog and Red Lotus, n.d. Scroll, mounted & framed, ink & color on paper 58 x 100 cm (22 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.) #ChineseArt www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

#FishFriday 🐠: Jan Bonawentura Ostrowski (Poland, b.1946) Ryby ( #Fish ), 2017 Oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm artinhouse.pl/en/auction/p...

René Foy, a gold pendant in the form of a peacock, Paris, c. 1900. Prívate collection © Dorotheum

Take a closer look at the artwork that inspired the animation... This print, 'A Drinking Party', forms part of a series titled 'A Set of Goldfish series' by Utagawa Kuniyoshi and dates to 1839–1842. 🌟A Drinking Party, part of A Set of Goldfish series by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861). EA1971.157

New issue of Arqueología Mexicana is all about #fish & fishing! 🐟🐠🎣 arqueologiamexicana.mx/ediciones-re...

**Top Ten Images of the Year · #8 of 10** Owl lovers unite! 🦉 Completely struck by this lovely depiction of an owl in the choir stalls at Wakefield Cathedral.

**Top Ten Images of the Year · #5 of 10** ✨ One of my favourite windows — a lovely 15th-century depiction of a wren hunting a spider in the Zouche Chapel at York Minster.

Acquistions alert! The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social now owns A Red, White, and Yellow Parrot Tulip, a Butterfly, and a Beetle, n.d. (C18th), by Barbara Regina Dietzsch museum.cornell.edu/collections/...

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Happy Newt Year! Richard Allen (Australia, b.1964) Smooth, Palmate and Great Crested #Newts, n.d. (before 2010) Watercolor & bodycolor, 17 x 28.5cm (6¾ x 11¼in) www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

Happy Newt Year! Plates XIII. IX, X from _Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain_ by M.C. Cooke London, 1893 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... arthistoryanimalia.com/2024/01/01/h...

Happy Gnu Year! Edward Saidi Tingatinga (Tanzanian, 1932-1972) #Gnu, 1968-72 Acrylic on hardboard, 60.5 x 60.5 cm www.mutualart.com/Artwork/GNU/... #AfricanArt #Tingatinga

Happy Gnu Year! “Antilope Gnou Tulbagh /Le Gnou /Der Capsche Gnou” 1780 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3103556... "Gnou” 1803 digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/84... “The Gnoo” 1804 library.si.edu/image-galler... “Black-Tailed Gnus” 1909 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1908031...

#HappyNewYear! Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan, 1797–1858) New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji [MShōzoku Inari Shrine in Ōji, Tokyo] From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, no. 118, part 4: Winter. 1857 Woodblock print commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hi... #JapaneseArt #Fox #Kitsune

#ToucanTuesday : Hunt Slonem (USA, b. 1951) Toco #Toucans, c.2001 Oil on canvas, 108 by 107 in. (274.3 by 271.8 cm) www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti... #BirdsInArt

#TwoForTuesday : Chalcedony double-carp snuff bottle China, Qing dynasty, 1820–1880 Carved chalcedony with glass h. with stoppers 7.2 cm., diam. 5.5 cm. (2 13/16 x 2 3/16 in.) Princeton University Art Museum y1936-675 artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti... #ChineseArt #Fish

#TurtleTuesday 🐢: Set of Three #Turtle Effigy Vessels Calima culture, Colombia, 100 BCE - 500 CE Ceramic with brown-orange slip, calcareous deposit, manganese oxides H. 9 to 10 cm - L. 14 cm (H. 3 ½ to 4 in - L. 5 ½ in) www.giquelloetassocies.fr/en/lot/11418... #IndigenousArt #AndeanArt

Where are my #CrabTime & #Crustmas fans at - look at this little guy 😂 Land #Crab Effigy Vessel Colima culture, E. Mexico, Proto-Classical, 100 BCE - 250 CE Redware ceramic w/ brick red slip, black oxides H17 x W18 x D20.5 cm www.giquelloetassocies.fr/en/lot/10121... #MesoAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

White #Cockatoo, c.1755 Attributed to Itō Jakuchū (Japan, 1716–1800) Hanging scroll: ink & color on silk with mounting: 74 13/16 × 24 1/2 in. (190 × 62.3 cm) Yale University Art Gallery 2006.210.7a-b artgallery.yale.edu/collections/... #JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt #Parrot

Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1928-2010) #Grasshopper, 1986 Lithograph, 46 x 68 cm www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Gras... #Insects

Rosabel Sylestine (Coushatta (Koasati), 1923-1998) Basket in the form of an #owl, 1976 Pine needles, raffia, pine cones; Coiled, stitched; 30.4 x 20 cm Smithsonian NMAI 25/5387 americanindian.si.edu/collections-... #BirdsInArt #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenoisArt #WomenArtists

Rufino Tamayo Gato (1959) lithograph in colors on Arches paper 47.0 x 65.4 cm

Vessel with Abstract Feline and Falcon-Head Spout, Paracas, 650 BCE–150 BCE Place: Ocucaje Medium: Ceramic with resinous postfire paint https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12720

#MetalMonday : Hsiung Ping-Ming (China, 1922–2002) #Owl, 1958 Metal sculpture, 14 1/16 x 9 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (35.7 x 23.2 x 19.4 cm Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 66.4062 www.si.edu/object/owl:h... #BirdsInArt

#MonochromeMonday : John Bernard Flannagan (USA, 1895-1942) #Giraffes, n.d. (1st half 20th c.) Linocut on cream wove paper Harvard Art Museums M11061 hvrd.art/o/256790

#MonotremeMonday : Duckbill ( #Platypus ) - Herend Animal Figurine 15420-0-00 VHN - Black Fishnet Herend Porcelain Manufactory, Hungary Hand-painted & gilded porcelain H: 5.5 cm (2.25"H), L: 18 cm (7"L), W: 8 cm (3.25"W), Wt: 015 kg www.herendanimals.com/product/duck...

#MarsupialMonday : Minnie Adkins (b. 1934) & Garland Adkins (1928-1997) Possum and Babies, 20th c. Painted wood carvings Size range 2 3/4" H x 1 1/4" W x 6 3/4" D to 12 1/4" H x 4 1/2" W x 42 1/2" D caseantiques.com/item/lot-341... #Opossums #Marsupials #FolkArt

🎨🐕 Hope you're enjoying the weekend just as much as the dogs in this week's #ArtfulPup selection. These working hounds are the subject of "Breaking Cover," a 1994 painting by Andre Pater at the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg, VA. #museumdogs #dogsinart #canineart #dogsinmuseums

Did you ever have a piggy bank, or chokin-bako? Probably. Discover a trove of money boxes from around the world (many of which are pig-shaped) at the Museum of Money Boxes in Amagasaki, Hyogo. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/muse... #PiggyBank #MoneyBox #貯金箱 #MuseumOfMoneyBoxes #JETAA #Japan

hremn, m.n: raven. (H’REH-mun / ˈhrɛ-mən) Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

pynding, f.n: dam. (PUEN-ding / ˈpyn-dɪŋ) Image: Lambeth Apocalypse; England, 13th century; @lampallib.bsky.social MS 209, f. 7v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

ge-wǣpnod, adj: armed, equipped with weapons. (yeh-WAP-nod / jɛ-ˈwæːp-nɔd) Image: Lambeth Apocalypse; England, 13th century; @lampallib.bsky.social MS 209, f. 8r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Netsuke: #Dog with #Puppy (and bonus auspicious #dragonfly!) Japan, Edo period, 19th c. Stained ivory, inlaid horn eyes H 1.8 x L 5.3 cm www.dorotheum.com/en/l/7120417/ #JapaneseArt #DogsInArt

Emile Gallé (France, 1846-1904) “Libellules” ( #Dragonflies ) Lamp Shade, Nancy, c. 1920 Glass w/ pigment powder inclusions & etching H 16.1 cm, Dia. 23.4 cm www.dorotheum.com/en/l/9693500/ #ArtNouveau

Alison D’Oyley (North Norfolk, UK) Shell-Shock, n.d. (21st c.) Multi-layer silkscreen print with hand stitch linksandlayers.weebly.com/alison-doyle... www.alisondoyley.co.uk #WomenArtists #Shells

Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1928-2010) Three Beauties, n.d. Acrylic on paper 179 x 96.4 cm (70 ½ x 38 in.) www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5... #BirdsInArt #Parrots #Macaws

Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1928-2010) #Parrot Girls, 1993 Acrylic on paper 47.7 x 57.8 cm (18 ¾ x 22 ¾ in.) onlineonly.christies.com/s/contempora... #BirdsInArt #Macaws

FISHHHHHHHHHHHHH Carla Tolomeo (Italy, b.1945) Yellow and Gold, 2002 Sculpture chair w/ Pontoglio velvets & sequins 210x120x50 cm www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/... #ContrmporaryArt #Fish

Oscar Laske (Austria, 1874-1951) Orpheus und die Tiere (Orpheus and the Animals), n.d. (c.1920s?) Mixed media of gouache & gold leaf over pencil on paper, approx. 65.5 x 65.8 cm www.dorotheum.com/en/l/8505658/

Ikkōsai Yoshimori 光斎芳盛 (Japan, 1830-1884) Diptych: Female #Elephant from Central India (Tenjiku kudari daijōzō no zu), published by Otakuya Takichi, 1861 Yokohama woodblock-printed ōban diptych; ink & color on paper H36.3 x W48.5 cm Harvard Art Museums 2007.214.64.1-2 hvrd.art/o/318776 #JapaneseArt

Three Raccoon Dogs, by Mori Sosen, late 18th century-early 19th century