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Summary

Joseph Stevens: Dog Carrying Dinner to its Master (Fable by La Fontaine)

Artist

Joseph Stevens (–1892)
Alternative names	Joseph Edouard Stevens
Description	Belgian painter, etcher, graphic artist and drawer
Date of birth/death	26 November 1816 / 26 December 1816 / 20 November 1819	2 August 1892
Location of birth/death	City of Brussels	Brussels metropolitan area
Work location	Paris (1855); Paris (1857); Paris (1859); Paris (1861); Paris (1863); Paris (1870); Paris (1852–1853)
Authority file	: Q1708044 VIAF: 62731025 ISNI: 0000000066883628 ULAN: 500042611 LCCN: nr2003029691 DBNL: stev022 WorldCat

Title

Dog Carrying Dinner to its Master (Fable by La Fontaine)

Object type

painting

Description

English: Oil painting of La Fontaine's Fable, The dog who carries his master's dinner round his neck, 1846.

Date

1846

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 60 cm (23.6 in); width: 81 cm (31.8 in)

Collection

Hermitage Museum

	Native name	Государственный Эрмитаж
	Location	Saint Petersburg
	Coordinates	59° 56′ 26″ N, 30° 18′ 49″ E
	Established	1764
	Website	hermitagemuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q132783 VIAF: 128956287 ISNI: 000000041800742X LCCN: n79100241 NLA: 35139924 OSM: 8092294 WorldCat

Accession number

ГЭ-7235 (Hermitage Museum)

Place of creation

Belgium

Object history

Source of entry: via the State Museum Fund from the collection of Princes Gorchakov, St Petersburg, 1923

Inscriptions

Signature bottom right:

J. Stevens ....

References

Hermitage Museum work ID: 01.+Paintings/30513

Source/Photographer

1. oceansbridge.com
2. arthermitage.org

Licensing

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current	13:41, 16 June 2016	1,476 × 1,089 (339 KB)	Trzęsacz	http://www.arthermitage.org/Joseph-Stevens/Dog-Carrying-Dinner-to-its-Master.html
	09:16, 22 April 2016	1,200 × 885 (245 KB)	Mzilikazi1939	improved contrast
	23:35, 21 April 2016	1,484 × 1,094 (332 KB)	Mzilikazi1939	{{subst:Upload marker added by en.wp UW}} {{Information \|Description = {{en\|Oil painting of La Fontaine's Fable, The dog who carried dinner to his master, 1846. In the Hermitage Art Gallery, St Petersburg.}} \|Source = '''Original publication''': 1846<b...