Monday, April 24, 2023

Sympathy

Briton Riviere, Sympathy, c. 1878

 This is one of my favorite paintings featuring, as it does, a dog doing what they do best — empathizing with their loved ones.

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  1. My copy of the painting above has the dog with a ghost-like appearance which made the picture so healing for me after I lost my dog of 15 years in 2014. The ghost-like appearance of the dog in the version I own made me feel that my Shelly was still with me, in another dimension, of course, but still with me. Do you know Riviere's original intent?

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    1. I think he was just painting a sympathetic picture. If you look the artist up there are more animal paintings, which the public always responded well to.

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