Painting Key



Honey (Gathering Wild Honey)
Petroglyph
Cave of the Spiders
Valencia, c. 6000 BC



Ants (Ants in Wheat Field)
The Worksop Bestiary
Lincoln or York, c. 1187
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York


Dragonfly Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
(Dragonfly), c. 1492-1516
Codex G, Institut de France




Stag Beetle Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
The Stag Beetle, 1505
Watercolor and bodycolor on paper, 14.1 x 11.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles




Butterfly Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Butterflies and Poppies, 1890
Oil on canvas, 34.5 x 25.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam



Dragonfly Man Ray (1890-1976)
Dragonfly, 1926
pochoir on paper, 55.8 x 37.8 cm
from Revolving Doors
Edition Surrealistes, Paris




Caterpillar Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
The Flavour of Tears, 1948
Oil on canvas, 75 x 116 cm
Private collection



Dragonfly Joan Miro (1893-1983)
Flight of the Dragonfly




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