Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of artists who have considered the pig.
William Dacres Adams, England, (1864-1951), works include: House with Pigs in the Foreground. Adams was a painter and lithographer of portraits and architectural subjects. His work was greatly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.
Andrea Alciato, Italian (1492-1550), works include: Emblematum Libellus. Alciato was a jurist and writer and is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists. Alciato is most famous for his Emblemata, or emblem books.
Louis Anquetin, France (1861-1932), works include: Etude de cochons (dos, face, profil), Cochon suspendu par les pieds, Cochon : Étude 1. Anquetin was a painter. He was an early adopter of Impressionism. Anquetin schooled and painted with Toulouse-Lautrec, Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh. With Emile Bernard, he formulated the principles of Cloisonnism.
Louis Apol, Dutch, (1850-1936) – Varkens bij een stal (Pigs in a sty). Apol was one of the minor masters of the Hague school.
Pietro Aquila, Italy, (1650–1692) – Circe and Ulysses, from the series Galeriae Farnesianae Icones (ca. 1680). Aquila was an engraver, etcher, painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Aquila.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian, (ca.1527-1593) – The Cook (c. 1570), oil on panel. The Cook is a ‘double meaning’ image, inverted, it changes from a platter of roast suckling pig and fowls to the image of the cook who prepared the platter.
John James Audubon, United States, (1785-1851) – The Collard Peccary; Plate 31from: “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America” – folio edition.
Francesco Xanto Avelli, Italy, (b. ca. 1486-7; d. ca.1542) – Circe, Ulysses and his companions, earthenware low plate with maiolica tin-glazed (1533).
Anonymous parietal drawing 35,400 years ago. This figurative representation of a female babirusa or “pig-deer” resides on the ceiling of Leang Timpuseng cave in the southwestern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is one of the oldest dated naturalistic representational drawings in the world.