Dog in Landscape (Cane nel paesaggio)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

The alternative title for this painting is "Baby, My Great Dane." De Chirico was a great lover of dogs and an advocate for their welfare. On several occasions he wove Baby, his black-and-white Harlequin Dane, into the art-historical canon. Here, Baby rests with his head over his foreleg in a barren landscape whose ground and twilit sky de Chirico seems to have borrowed from Renoir and 15th-century Italian masters. In a painting by de Chirico entitled Isabella in the Paris Studio (c. 1934), a composition emulating Diego Velázquez's masterwork Las Meninas (1656), Baby and the artist's wife greet each other next to Alexandros (BF960), which stands on a nearby easel.

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