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Jean-Baptiste Oudry

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Charles Oudry, was also a painter.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (16)

A Panel from a Porticoes Series

1775 · Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

217.8 × 295.2 cm (85 3/4 × 116 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fables choisies (volumes 3 and 4)

1756 · Bound book of letterpress text with etched and engraved illustrations and woodcut vignettes and culs de lampe in black on ivory laid paper

Book, closed: 49 × 35 × 7 cm (19 5/16 × 13 13/16 × 2 13/16 in.); Book, open: 49 × 74.5 × 6.5 cm (19 5/16 × 29 3/8 × 2 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fables choisies (volumes 1 and 2)

1755 · Bound book of letterpress text with etched and engraved illustrations, with woodcut vignettes and culs de lampe in black on ivory laid paper

Book, closed: 49 × 35 × 7 cm (19 5/16 × 13 13/16 × 2 13/16 in.); Book, open: 49 × 74.5 × 6.5 cm (19 5/16 × 29 3/8 × 2 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Wild Sow and Her Young Attacked by Dogs

1748 · Pen and brown and gray ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache on light brown laid paper

Sheet: 37.7 x 51.7 cm (14 13/16 x 20 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Small Sword

1745 · steel, gilt and russeted, copper, wood

Overall: 105.4 cm (41 1/2 in.); Blade: 87.9 cm (34 5/8 in.); Guard: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

A Hare and a Leg of Lamb

1742 · oil on canvas

Framed: 118 x 92.5 x 6 cm (46 7/16 x 36 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 98.2 x 73.5 cm (38 11/16 x 28 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Fox and the Turkey Hens

1733 · brush and black ink and gray wash heightened with white gouache, blue ink in margin; framing lines in brown ink

Image: 24 x 18.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 31 x 26 cm (12 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Illustraties voor fabels van Jean de la Fontaine

1732 · brush on paper

width: 259 cm, height: 310 cm

Rijksmuseum

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