Paolo VeroneseItalian, 1528–1588Boy with a Greyhound
Can I see it?
Yes, on view now
Where is “Boy with a Greyhound” now? The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 612, New York. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.
New York, United States
Closed· opens tomorrow at 10:00 AM
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 29.100.105
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access (CC0)
In the life of Paolo Veronese
The whole life1568
Vasari includes Veronese in his “Lives”
The second edition of Giorgio Vasari's “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects” (1568), with improved coverage of the Venetian school, included a biography of Paolo Veronese.
7 September 1568
Son born: Gabriele Caliari
1570
Son born: Carlo Caliari
18 July 1573
Summoned before the Holy Inquisition over the “Last Supper”
On 18 July 1573 Veronese was summoned before the Venetian Inquisition, which objected to figures, animals and indecorum unsuited to a Last Supper in his canvas. He answered that painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen; the tribunal ordered him to repaint the picture, but he refused, and in the end it was merely re-titled the “Feast in the House of Levi”.
1576
Commissions from Emperor Rudolf II
From 1576 Veronese worked on commissions from the Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg; in this way the Venetian painter also influenced the “Rudolfine” artists of the Prague court.
after 1580
The family workshop increasingly works without his hand
Veronese headed a family workshop: his brother Benedetto, his sons Carlo and Gabriele, and his nephew Luigi Benfatto. According to Nicholas Penny, the workshop's role grew steadily, and after 1580 it is rare that one can be confident that Veronese was the sole hand involved.
