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![Painting, Moby Dick, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155206_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pélican la nuit étoilée, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155205_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La constellation du rat, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155204_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Aladin, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155179_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Volutes, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155175_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Yann est mort, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154931_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Ru, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154541_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ganesh, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153319_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La part du lion, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153041_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flamenco, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153040_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Oiseau mécanique, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152940_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Oiseau de feu, Bri.JCH](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152938_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La visite, région d’Abéché, Tchad, Frédéric Noy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152859_1_grid.jpg)
La visite, région d’Abéché, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$727
![Photography, Course hippique, N’Djamena, Tchad, Frédéric Noy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152828_1_grid.jpg)
Course hippique, N’Djamena, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$727
![Painting, Löwe abstrakt, Nicole Leidenfrost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150160_1_grid.jpg)
Löwe abstrakt
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,480
![Painting, Elegance of the Wild, Jennifer Makhatadze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142137_1_grid.jpg)
Elegance of the Wild
Jennifer Makhatadze
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Comment capturer une autruche, Alain Arnouil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140690_1_grid.jpg)
Comment capturer une autruche
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$671
![Painting, Gare au gorille, Alain Arnouil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140688_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Attention ou vous campez, Alain Arnouil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140687_1_grid.jpg)
Attention ou vous campez
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$671
![Photography, The call of the water 03 - Stokksnes, Iceland, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138635_1_grid.jpg)
The call of the water 03 - Stokksnes, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$727
![Painting, Savannah Vibes 2, Mathieu Lebreton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2131573_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lion, SB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127544_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bulldog, SB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127541_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tigre, SB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127538_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tiger #3, Brad Wilson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2125305_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chat a faim (Papillon), Muriel Matt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2112744_1_grid.jpg)
Chat a faim (Papillon)
Muriel Matt
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,510
![Painting, Cosmopolita V, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2095428_1_grid.jpg)
Cosmopolita V
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$9,060
![Photography, La salle d'attente (The waiting room), Muriel Bordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2092206_1_grid.jpg)
La salle d'attente (The waiting room)
Muriel Bordier
Photography - 100 x 172 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 67.7 x 1.6 inch
$6,152
![Sculpture, La grenouille, Serge Van de Put](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2085576_1_grid.jpg)
La grenouille
Serge Van de Put
Sculpture - 40 x 45 x 40 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 17.7 x 15.7 inch
$3,915
![Sculpture, Le poisson, Serge Van de Put](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2085558_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cirque du jus de betterave, Edward Zelinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050728_1_grid.jpg)
Cirque du jus de betterave
Edward Zelinsky
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.8 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.3 inch
$325
![Painting, Azure Observer, Gevorg Sinanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2038956_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Miss black knight, Artemisia Fine Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2036925_1_grid.jpg)
Miss black knight
Artemisia Fine Art
Painting - 79.8 x 79.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 31.4 x 2 inch
$4,100
![Painting, Eva, Andrei Petkevich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032473_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hippo in half, Andrei Petkevich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2032452_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mêlée de coqs blancs, Édouard Pignon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002047_1_grid.jpg)
Mêlée de coqs blancs
Édouard Pignon
Painting - 58 x 78 x 1 cm Painting - 22.8 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,250
![Painting, Afrika? Nö! Weilheim - Africa? nope! Weilheim (86), Petra Rattay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996851_1_grid.jpg)
Afrika? Nö! Weilheim - Africa? nope! Weilheim (86)
Petra Rattay
Painting - 60 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$951
![Painting, Stiere auf der Weide - bulls in the pasture (90), Petra Rattay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996848_1_grid.jpg)
Stiere auf der Weide - bulls in the pasture (90)
Petra Rattay
Painting - 42 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
$839
![Painting, Mali (106), Petra Rattay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996845_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Na, wie war's 2020 - Well, how was 2020 (31), Petra Rattay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996842_1_grid.jpg)
Na, wie war's 2020 - Well, how was 2020 (31)
Petra Rattay
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$615
![Painting, Katzenmama mit Baby - Cat mom with baby (31), Petra Rattay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996839_1_grid.jpg)
Katzenmama mit Baby - Cat mom with baby (31)
Petra Rattay
Painting - 35 x 21.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
$839
![Sculpture, Gravelot, Jean Lemonnier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1988799_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The cart with the horse. Suzdal, Simon Kozhin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1986567_1_grid.jpg)
The cart with the horse. Suzdal
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 30 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,816
![Print, Ad Altare Dei, Carlos Quinto Kemm](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1974714_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lady and the Dove, Oniudele Gold](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1974408_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fragmented Landscape, Dan Baldwin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1926918_1_grid.jpg)
Fragmented Landscape
Dan Baldwin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$16,800
![Painting, Les astuces du grand Duc, Catherine Chauloux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1925109_1_grid.jpg)
Les astuces du grand Duc
Catherine Chauloux
Painting - 50 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
![Painting, Appaloosa, Simon Kozhin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1913025_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'écaille, le chardonneret et la grappe de raisin, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1912008_1_grid.jpg)
L'écaille, le chardonneret et la grappe de raisin
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 27 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,650
![Painting, Assortis, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1911963_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le cardinal à la coupe de raisin, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1911924_1_grid.jpg)
Le cardinal à la coupe de raisin
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 35 x 27 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,650
![Painting, Le chardonneret à la grenade No 2, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1911903_1_grid.jpg)
Le chardonneret à la grenade No 2
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 24 x 19 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,398
![Painting, Le Martin-pêcheur aux iris des marais, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1911861_1_grid.jpg)
Le Martin-pêcheur aux iris des marais
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 33 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,650
![Painting, Le bouvreuil aux fraises, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909473_1_grid.jpg)
Le bouvreuil aux fraises
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 24 x 19 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,398
![Painting, Le Martin-pêcheur à la tulipe, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909428_1_grid.jpg)
Le Martin-pêcheur à la tulipe
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 35 x 27 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,672
![Painting, L'écureuil à la botte d'asperges, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909371_1_grid.jpg)
L'écureuil à la botte d'asperges
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 35 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,650
![Painting, La mésange charbonnière à la tarte citron, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909353_1_grid.jpg)
La mésange charbonnière à la tarte citron
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 27 x 22 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,510
![Painting, Le pot à graisse, le rollet et les citrons, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909338_1_grid.jpg)
Le pot à graisse, le rollet et les citrons
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.6 inch
$1,896
![Painting, Gaufres au sirop, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909326_1_grid.jpg)
Gaufres au sirop
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 24 x 33 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13 x 0.6 inch
$1,650
![Painting, Wedding tea, Valéry Vecu Quitard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909314_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La femme au cobra, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1908297_1_grid.jpg)
La femme au cobra
Lionel le Jeune
Painting - 43 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 16.9 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,063
![Painting, Terra IV, Ludovic Isidore](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1904616_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, At Hunting, Simon Kozhin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1903098_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Game of Four Kings (Chaturanga), Viraj Mithani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1869981_1_grid.jpg)
Game of Four Kings (Chaturanga)
Viraj Mithani
Print - 76.2 x 55.8 x 0.2 cm Print - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,566
![Sculpture, Le lézard rose, Patopalomo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1793742_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Réveil, Violaine Boisivon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1787133_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Souffle de vie, Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1784733_1_grid.jpg)
Souffle de vie
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$10,066
![Painting, Mayhem, Salome Khubashvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777296_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Serenity II, Karim Benchebra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1758180_1_grid.jpg)
Serenity II
Karim Benchebra
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$783
![Fine Art Drawings, Mariposa, Karim Benchebra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1757892_1_grid.jpg)
Mariposa
Karim Benchebra
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$783
![Fine Art Drawings, Origines, Karim Benchebra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1757823_1_grid.jpg)
Origines
Karim Benchebra
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,678
![Photography, Cambodge, près de Kampot, éleveur, Eric Benard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1720830_1_grid.jpg)
Cambodge, près de Kampot, éleveur
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$727
![Photography, Cambodge, près de Kampot, rizières, Eric Benard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1720818_1_grid.jpg)
Cambodge, près de Kampot, rizières
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$727
![Painting, Seeking the light, Hiro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1683051_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Amantis en el jardín, Gizi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1678566_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, House of Man, Keng Wai Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1662036_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Envolée sur Bouteille II, VanBinh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1594314_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Tête de jeune Orang-Outan EA IV/IV, Jean-François Gambino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1582995_1_grid.jpg)
Tête de jeune Orang-Outan EA IV/IV
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 21 x 14 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 5.5 x 5.9 inch
$3,915
![Painting, Silver fishes, Dany Soyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1556595_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mer rouge, Dany Soyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1555560_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Red fish, Dany Soyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1552764_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Ours Polaire Danseur, François Rambaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1519599_1_grid.jpg)
Ours Polaire Danseur
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 40 x 18 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.1 x 7.1 inch
$503
![Photography, La lente agonie du lac Victoria, Frédéric Noy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1513494_1_grid.jpg)
La lente agonie du lac Victoria
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 50 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Sans titre #1, Dan Barichasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1405872_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre #1, Série Qohelet, Dan Barichasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1405512_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre #1, Série Qohelet
Dan Barichasse
Painting - 60 x 50 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$4,809
![Painting, L'origine du monde #1, Dan Barichasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1405458_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les oiseaux sans Hitchcock, Zwy Milshtein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1262244_1_grid.jpg)
Les oiseaux sans Hitchcock
Zwy Milshtein
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$20,132
![Sculpture, Sans défense, Maïté Martinez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1247733_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Secular Bird, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212309_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Panthere Christian Lattier, Christian Lattier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1210809_1_grid.jpg)
Panthere Christian Lattier
Christian Lattier
Photography - 18 x 29 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.4 inch
$5,480
![Painting, At His Peril, Michael Knigin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1158999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Guilded Native, Michael Knigin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1158984_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Loyal Pal, Michael Knigin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1158975_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.