# Portrait of a Greyhound with Pup

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PACE DEL CAMPIDOGLIO, Michele](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pace-del-campidoglio-michele-ra5cd93ed668473>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas

## Commentary

Although Pace del Campidoglio is mainly known as a painter of still-life, he also painted for his patron, Cardinal Flavio Chigi \(1641-1693\), numerous paintings of greyhounds for his residences in and around Rome. The present picture, depicting a greyhound with pup peering at him timidly out of its niche-like space in the lower right corner, belongs to this group of paintings. The brown greyhound is depicted before a twilit landscape. The artist seems to have specialised in these open-air animal portraits, a concept that also holds true for his still-lifes.

## Related artworks

- [Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pace-del-campidoglio-michele-ra5cd93ed668473/still-life-r578d768f96c335>)
- [Still-Life with a Female Figure](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pace-del-campidoglio-michele-ra5cd93ed668473/still-life-with-a-female-figure-rcc8c90fc7d7955>)
- [Still-Life with a Female Figure](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pace-del-campidoglio-michele-ra5cd93ed668473/still-life-with-a-female-figure-rfaf024b87a7336>)
- [Still-Life with Grapes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pace-del-campidoglio-michele-ra5cd93ed668473/still-life-with-grapes-r50bda0f4d57d79>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)