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 Rabbits in Art, Literature, Culture (part 2): The Painted Rabbit


Marsyas Enchanting the Hares
Marsyas Enchanting the Hares
by Elihu Vedder
(American, 1836-1923)

Girl with Rabbits
Frederick Stuart Church - American 1842-1924

The white rabbit - Tenniel


Dead Hare with Leg of Lamb
OUDRY, Jean-Baptiste
French painter (b. 1686, Paris, d. 1755, Beauvais)

The rabbit as he is depicted in fiction is very different from the rabbit in reality.

Young Hare by Albrecht DurerYoung Hare by Albrecht Durer

Possibly the most famaous painted rabbit is A Young Hare by Albrecht Durer. 1502. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 25 x 23 cm; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna For additional information about this artist see the entry in the WebMuseum.

Additional information is in Dürer's Animals, by Colin T. Eisler, Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1991.

Detail from Hunting Rabbits with Whippets and Greyhounds.
Gaston Phoebus, Book of the Hunt, 15th Century.
Illuminated Manuscript has several pages of illuminations devoted to rabbits and hares. digitized by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Copyright prevents downloading these images, but I have linked to a few of them:
Here are links to Hunting Rabbits with Whippets and Greyhounds and Hunting Hares with Nets.

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