The Nelson Atkins Museum features a collection of animal artworks from various time periods and cultures, including a 19th century French painting of sheep at a watering hole, an 18th century French still life with a cat and fish, a Greek sculpture of a lion from 32 BCE, a Chinese sculpture of a male lion from the Qing Dynasty in the 17th-18th century, and a 9th century Indian sculpture of Ganesh.

1. Selection of Animal Art from The Nelson Atkins Museum

2. Sheep at the Watering Hole, Charles Emile Jacque, 19th c.

3. Still Life with a Cat
and Fish,
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon
Chardin, 1728

4. Portrait of Madame
Dericour,
Joseph-Siffred
Duplessis, 1769

5. The Rhinocerous, Albrecht Durer, 1515

6. Lion, Greek, 32 BCE

7. Teapot in the Form of a Camel, England
1750-1755

8. Outer Coffin of Meret-it-es with Anubis the Jackal, 380-350 BCE

9. Male Lion, China,
Qing Dynasty, 1662-
1722

10. Animal Skin Tobacco Bag, Eastern Plains, 1840

11. Ploughing, Thomas Hart Benton, 1934

12. Ganesh, India
9th century