The Partridge Saves Her Young

1732

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Artist, French, 1686 - 1755

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and black ink, white gouache, and gray wash, with a simluated mount in blue and gray wash and pen and dark brown ink, on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Constance Mellon

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.4 x 19.2 cm (9 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 31.8 x 25.7 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.45.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Opperman 1977, no. 428

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 80-81.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 114-115, 282, 2009, no. 48 (color).

Bibliography

1977

  • Opperman, Hal N. Jean-Baptiste Oudry. 2 vols. New York and London, 1977, 2: 428 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1972, revised and augmented).

Inscriptions

signed lower left in brush and brown ink: JB. Oudry / 1732

Wikidata ID

Q64581172

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