Bonnard, Pierre
Pierre Bonnard, France, (1867-1947), le Cochon [The Pig], (c. 1904), lithograph from Jules Renard’s 1904 edition of Histoires Naturelles. Bonnard was also a founder of the Les Nabis’ art movement .
Archives: Pig Artists
An alphabetical list of artists who have considered the pig.
Bosch, Hieronymus
Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch, (1450-1516) – Temptation of St. Anthony, (c. 1462-68 or c. 1500-25), oil on wood panel. Bosch is known for his enigmatic panels illustrating complex religious subjects with fantastic, often demonic imagery.
Bouchor, Joseph-Félix
Joseph-Félix Bouchor, France, (1853-1937), works include: Le marché aux cochons d’Auray. Bouchor was an illustrator and painter. He was embedded with allied troops during World War I. After the war, Bouchor travelled and painted extensively in France and North Africa.
Bourdichon, Jean
Jean Bourdichon, France, (1457-1521) – Pig-butchering, from The Great Book of Hours of Anne of Brittany (1500-08), tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment.
Bourgonnier, Claude Charles
Claude Charles Bourgonnier, France, (ca. 1860-1921), works include: Tueur de cochons. Bourgonnier was a painter and lithographer. He focused on portrait and genre painting and his lithographs depicted scenes of Spain and episodes of WWI.
Bower, Lucy Scott
Lucy Scott Bower, American, (1864-1934) – Pig Market, Dinan, (1928), oil on canvas.
Brangwyn, Frank
Frank Brangwyn, British, (1867-1956) – Old Houses, St. Cirq. (19th – 20th Cent.), etching and drypoint. Brangwyn was an independent artist, an experimenter and an innovator, working in diverse mediums such as murals, oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs.
Bray, Salomon de
Salomon de Bray, Netherlands, (1597-1664) – Odysseus and Circe, (c. 1650-55), oil on canvas. Bray was a painter, poet, architect and designer of silverwork. He painted mostly religious, allegorical and mythological scenes, along with portraits, landscapes, and genre pictures.
Breton, Jules
Jules Breton, French (1827-1906), works include: Breton Laundresses at Douarnenez and Evening in the Hamlet of Finistere. Breton was a Realist painter of rustic life focusing on scenes of labour, rest, rural festivals and religious festivals. Breton’s renderings of single peasant female figures in a landscape, posed against the setting sun, were very popular, especially in the United States.
Brock, Charles Edmund
Charles Edmund Brock, British, (1870-1938) – Circe the Sorceress Turns Odysseus’ Men into Swine, illustration from Stories from the Classics, The Children’s Hour v. 3. New York: Houghton Mifflin (1929).