Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of artists who have considered the pig.
Emile Joseph Jules Simon (1890-1976), works include: Scène de marché à Pont-Croix. Simon was a painter. Simon was inspired by the Breton landscape and people in their traditional and daily activities. Simon lived most of his life in the mansion Squividan to Clohars-Fouesnant (Finistère) with the painter-artist Madeleine Fié-Fieux and her husband. Financially secure, Simon did not sell any of his paintings, all stayed at Squividan until his death.
Lucien Simon, French (1861-1945), works include: Le Menhir de Plozevet and La mort du cochon. Simon was a plein air (outdoor) artists who painted subjects in Brittany and Northern France. He worked in oils and watercolors with a realist approach. His landscape settings and peasant scenes were intimate, not glamorized or exaggerated. He as part of the ‘La Bande Noire’, or less often ‘the Nubians’, group of painters.
German, (1514-1562) Chez Circé [The Home of Circe] (1563), wood envgraving illustration from: Ovid. Metamorphoses. Frankfurt edition, (1563).andNicholausReusner. Emblemata. Frankfurt edition, (1581). Editor’s Note: This image was copied by Solis from Bernard Salomon’s 1557 engraving for the 1557 edition of Metamorphoses produced in Lyon. About the Artist Virgil Solis (1514-1562) was a German wood engraver … Read more
Thomas George Soper, England (1870-1942), works include: Circe’s Palace and Watching the piglets. Soper was a print maker and etcher who specialized in rustic scenes of people and animals, especially horses.
United States, (1870-1919) Le repas des cochons [The pig’s meal] (19-20th century), oil on canvas 85 x 73 in. (215.9 x 185.4 cm.) Private collection About the Artist Arthur Watson Sparks, United States, (1870-1919), had early training in the field of architecture and not until the end of the nineteenth century did he begin to … Read more
Flemish, (1546–1611) Odysseus and Circe (1580/1585), oil on canvas 28.4 x 42.5 in. (72 x 108 cm.) Kunsthistorisches Museum Editor’s Note: Here is a close up of the pig/boar: About the Artist Bartholomäus Spranger (1546–1611) was a Flemish Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher. After early artistic training in Antwerp, he traveled to Paris and then … Read more
Joseph Stany-Gauthier, France (1883-1969), works include: Marché aux cochon en Bretagne. Stany-Gauthier was a painter, sculptor, art historian and museum curator known for painting Brittany port scenes and Bretons’ daily lives in towns and rural settings. He was also Curator of the Musée du Château de Nantes from 1922 until 1969.
Flanders, (1523-1605) Odysseus, Mercury and Circe (1570) pen and ink with wash and white heighteningover black chalk under-drawing on yellow washed paper 11.8 x 8.7 in. (29.9 x 22 cm.) The Royal Collection, London Editor’s Note: This is a study for a painting in Francesco de’ Medici’s cabinet room or studiolo in the Palazzo Vecchio. … Read more
United States, (fl. late 20th/early 21st cent.) Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape (2007), oil and gold leaf on canvas 46 x 58 in. (116.8 x 147.3 cm.) Editor’s Note: This image is part of Summerall’s human-animal harmony themed “The Goddess Returns” series which premiered in 2008. Circe (ca. 2008), oil on canvas 46 … Read more
Anonymous – Germany, 15th century The Bacon Merchant 15th cent. illumination National Library of France The Salted Pork Merchant 15th cent. illumination National Library of France About the Artist Anonymous, Germany, 15th century. These images are from an illuminated manuscript copy of the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a popular treatises on medicine and health in use during … Read more