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Art History Animalia

Mary Cassatt was born (22 May 1844 - 15 June 1926). The cute in her famous painting Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878) is Baptiste, a Brussels Griffon she got through her good friend & fellow Edgar Degas. She became a devotee to the breed thereafter & you can find them in a number of her other works! (The girl was a daughter of a friend of Degas' too.)
National Gallery of Art DC: nga.gov/collection/art-object-