Masterful portraits of  two dogs  : king poodle and english bulldoge - "sanguine and choleric persons" (so originally titled by the artist in german under images ) was  created in the  19 century by most renown austrian animalist painter Carl Reichert (1836 Vienna - 1918 Graz). His works are in the best animalistic collections around of the world.

He was a son of painter Heinrich Reichert and brother of Prague theater painter Heinrich Reichert . Studied at the Drawing Academy in Graz by J.Tunner and E.C. Moser , later by J.Kuwasseg. From 1866 till 1876 he lived in Munich and Rome. Here he worked with Anton Romako and Johann Passini. From 1869 to 1910 he lived in Vienna , where were created his best dogs and cats genre paintings. Since 1874 - Member of Vienna Artist Union "Künstlerhaus".

Other works by C.Reichert see under item numbers : 928; 940; 1043; 2338, 3027; 3259.