# Venus, a Landseer Newfoundland with a Rabbit

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/landseer-sir-edwin-henry-rddec8dc6535d8c>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 116 x 141 cm

## Commentary

This canvas, painted when the artist was just 17 years old, was exhibited at the British Institution in 1819, as A Newfoundland Dog with Rabbit. It is the first of many such images of Newfoundland dogs which Landseer would later paint, and for which he is justly famous.

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- [A Greyhound with a Hare](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/landseer-sir-edwin-henry-rddec8dc6535d8c/a-greyhound-with-a-hare-r9b825ed3376eec>)
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## Attribution

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