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Jean-Baptiste Oudry

On trouve le corps mort de l'hote que l'on avait cache, 1727

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series Title

Scarron's Le Roman Comique

Medium

black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 32.7 x 28 cm (12 7/8 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Opperman 1977, no. 191

Accession Number

1951.10.104

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (artist) French, 1686 - 1755

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Inscription

lower left in black chalk: JB Oudry / 1727

Provenance

Unidentified mark, ARD, on former mount (Lugt 172)

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1967: Opperman, Hal N. "Oudry Illustrateur: le Roman Comique de Scarron" Gazette des Beaux Arts 6e per., 70 (1967): 347, no.22, fig.11.

1977: Opperman, Hal N. Jean-Baptiste Oudry. 2 vols. New York and London, 1977.

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 112, fig. 1 (color).

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