Hühnerhund

Huhnerhund (Pointer) from 1766 by George Stubbs depicts a gun dog, one of many breeds he painted throughout his career. The pointer's alert stance captures the characteristic behavior of this hunting breed. Stubbs painted primarily in oil on canvas and board, achieving a distinctive cool clarity through a careful layered technique built over a white ground. His seven years of dissecting horses in a remote Lincolnshire farmhouse gave his animal painting an anatomical authority no contemporary ...

The pointing dog is rendered with anatomical precision, its characteristic alert posture captured with Stubbs's careful observation of canine behavior.