![Painting, La Dame au Paon, Svetlana Maksimenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196890_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, La Dame au Paon, Svetlana Maksimenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196890_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Dame au Chien, Svetlana Maksimenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196851_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Dame au Mouton, Svetlana Maksimenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196846_1_grid.jpg)
La Dame au Mouton
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
$218
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, bajo el mismo mar (2), Baptiste Laurent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193113_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre, bajo el mismo mar (2)
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$503
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, bajo el mismo mar, Baptiste Laurent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193111_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre, bajo el mismo mar
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$503
![Painting, Prière au soleil, Clara Crespin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190494_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Light as a feather 2, Camilla Gude](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188555_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Light as a feather, Camilla Gude](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188554_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Face Bugs, Camilla Gude](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188550_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, 11, Absurdity Inventor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188544_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Fast Lane, Amrita Bilimoria](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181926_1_grid.jpg)
The Fast Lane
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 91.4 x 64.3 x 0.5 cm Photography - 36 x 25.3 x 0.2 inch
$2,500
![Painting, Portrait with koi fishes, Ara Gasparyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151606_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait with koi fishes
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$850
![Painting, Feel the blue II, Ritchelly Oliveira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142556_1_grid.jpg)
Feel the blue II
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 123 x 98 x 4 cm Painting - 48.4 x 38.6 x 1.6 inch
$11,856
![Print, Paradise Lost, Shepard Fairey (Obey)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1484622_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Lush, Guillaume Piot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212280_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Essence, Guillaume Piot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211659_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Entre Aguas - Nº2, Florentina Fischer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198547_1_grid.jpg)
Entre Aguas - Nº2
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,349
![Painting, Protect me ! / 5, Jean-Jacques Venturini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193369_1_grid.jpg)
Protect me ! / 5
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 75 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,790
![Painting, Protect me ! / 3, Jean-Jacques Venturini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193368_1_grid.jpg)
Protect me ! / 3
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,790
![Sculpture, Orange fugu, Max ArtLouis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192230_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Blue fugu, Max ArtLouis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192229_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Protect me ! / 2, Jean-Jacques Venturini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188883_1_grid.jpg)
Protect me ! / 2
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 63 x 75 x 4 cm Painting - 24.8 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$895
![Print, Natation, Jean-Philippe Henric](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188234_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, 100m, Jean-Philippe Henric](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188226_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Los miedos, Gloria Matarazzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187251_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, No bees No honey, Shepard Fairey (Obey)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1619451_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Transhumans 2, Enki Bilal](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1172430_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Vermeer, Erró](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1158525_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle, William Sweetlove](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/678858_1_grid.jpg)
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$839
![Sculpture, Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle, William Sweetlove](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/678849_1_grid.jpg)
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$839
![Painting, La danse XXVI, Elise Barat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/451785_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lions´Love, Nicole Leidenfrost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204704_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les contraires s'attirent, Clo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194249_1_grid.jpg)
Les contraires s'attirent
Clo
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$5,200
![Sculpture, Dog, Tango](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194040_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Husky, Miguel Guía](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142159_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le regard du tigre, Miguel Guía](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142151_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, The Stronger of the Two, Sophie Verger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087511_1_grid.jpg)
The Stronger of the Two
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 26.5 x 48 x 15 cm Sculpture - 10.4 x 18.9 x 5.9 inch
$5,816
![Print, Still Life, Hunt Slonem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1163931_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Purple Spell, Hunt Slonem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1163901_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Elasticità di gatti, Fortunato Depero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1002645_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Olé Olé Big Bull, Bernard Rives](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190094_1_grid.jpg)
Olé Olé Big Bull
Bernard Rives
Sculpture - 270 x 210 x 70 cm Sculpture - 106.3 x 82.7 x 27.6 inch
$32,435
![Sculpture, 90cm teddy H Tribute, Naor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165320_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Cerf en métal recyclé, Hassan Laamirat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144496_1_grid.jpg)
Cerf en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 275 x 140 x 200 cm Sculpture - 108.3 x 55.1 x 78.7 inch
$4,809
![Photography, Orangutan #1, Brad Wilson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2113536_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tiger #7, Brad Wilson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2112192_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The man who lost himself, Zhivko Mutafchiev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726077_1_grid.jpg)
The man who lost himself
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Birth, Menashe Kadishman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1610331_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Metamorphosis, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/375210_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Occupy, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/375204_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mustang, Farid Saâdi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203577_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Silent Language, Amrita Bilimoria](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201087_1_grid.jpg)
The Silent Language
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 45.7 x 32 x 0.5 cm Photography - 18 x 12.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
![Painting, A veces se nos olvida, Richard García](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195618_1_grid.jpg)
A veces se nos olvida
Richard García
Painting - 170 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,585
![Painting, Quiero, quiero, quiero, Richard García](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195614_1_grid.jpg)
Quiero, quiero, quiero
Richard García
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,386
![Print, 08, Things Synthetic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188527_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Pegasus, Stavri Kalinov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187559_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Bleu Butterfly, Fred Meurice](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155985_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Axel and his elephant, Sophie Verger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094471_1_grid.jpg)
Axel and his elephant
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 19 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,908
![Painting, Les mouettes, Laurence Leccia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1743294_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les oiseaux bleus, Charlotte Abecassis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1741710_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Butterfly Park 11, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1588887_1_grid.jpg)
Butterfly Park 11
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Butterfly Park 10, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1588872_1_grid.jpg)
Butterfly Park 10
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Les sages messagers, Charlotte Abecassis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1578549_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Cosmic Butterflies, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1528950_1_grid.jpg)
Cosmic Butterflies
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 28 x 94 x 4 cm Sculpture - 11 x 37 x 1.6 inch
$1,622
![Sculpture, Butterfly Park 9, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1528719_1_grid.jpg)
Butterfly Park 9
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 65 x 65 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 25.6 x 2 inch
$1,957
![Sculpture, Butterfly Park 8, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1528710_1_grid.jpg)
Butterfly Park 8
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 65 x 65 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 25.6 x 2 inch
$1,957
![Sculpture, Butterflies Park 6, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1528647_1_grid.jpg)
Butterflies Park 6
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 2 inch
$1,957
![Photography, A Brand New Day, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1528506_1_grid.jpg)
A Brand New Day
Sumit Mehndiratta
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.01 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,174
![Print, Sunny Day Treescape, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1267350_1_grid.jpg)
Sunny Day Treescape
Sumit Mehndiratta
Print - 103 x 68 x 0.5 cm Print - 40.6 x 26.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,118
![Print, Serene Treescape, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1267341_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pink Safari, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1267323_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Two in the hand, Milkbox](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199244_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Baskerville, Milkbox](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199219_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Fin, Crapulerie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199056_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, 05, Absurdity Inventor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188547_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Drying Sheep, Camilla Gude](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188545_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Aquatic Race 02, Camilla Gude](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159867_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Seahorse, Camilla Gude](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159624_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, We Are The Square Jocular Clan 3, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109228_1_grid.jpg)
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 3
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,125
![Print, We Are The Square Jocular Clan 4, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109225_1_grid.jpg)
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 4
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,125
![Print, We Are The Square Jocular Clan 8, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109216_1_grid.jpg)
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 8
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,125
![Print, We Are The Square Jocular Clan 9, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109213_1_grid.jpg)
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 9
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,125
![Print, We Are The Square Jocular Clan 10, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109210_1_grid.jpg)
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 10
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,125
![Print, We Are The Square Jocular Clan 2, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109204_1_grid.jpg)
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 2
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,125
![Sculpture, Oiseau bleu polaire et étoile, Martín Duque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997418_1_grid.jpg)
Oiseau bleu polaire et étoile
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 85 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$1,655
![Sculpture, Oiseau et lune fire rouge, Martín Duque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997415_1_grid.jpg)
Oiseau et lune fire rouge
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 85 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$1,655
![Sculpture, Swarovski panther, Yves & Yulia Pires](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344402_1_grid.jpg)
Swarovski panther
Yves & Yulia Pires
Sculpture - 24 x 67 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 26.4 x 6.3 inch
$16,777
![Photography, Bearded Reedling - Panurus biarmicus, Ivaylo Zafirov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/820776_1_grid.jpg)
Bearded Reedling - Panurus biarmicus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
$235
![Photography, Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus, Ivaylo Zafirov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/820773_1_grid.jpg)
Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
$235
![Sculpture, Alter Ego Token Cane, Alessandro Piano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191627_1_grid.jpg)
Alter Ego Token Cane
Alessandro Piano
Sculpture - 24.5 x 14 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 9.6 x 5.5 x 3.7 inch
$447
![Sculpture, Avec Maman, Gaël Rouxeville](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174511_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Taureau 5, Julien Cuny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2014554_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Colibri 1, Juan Carlos Suarez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1583937_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, La Poule, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1554636_1_grid.jpg)
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.