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“In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan,” an exhibition that opened Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum, examines the relationship between humans and animals and its influence on the artistic imagination. It includes a broad range of artifacts, including drawings by Rubens and Delacroix, a Peanuts cartoon strip by Charles M. Schulz, and scores by Haydn and Debussy. Edward Rothstein says the show is “so literate and gracious that you don’t immediately realize just how startling its objects are and how haunting its theme is.” Here is a gallery of images from the exhibition.

Pictured: “Study of the Giraffe,” circa 1827, by Nicolas Hüet, given to Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt.