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Quentin-Pierre Chedel after Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Le chat et le rat (The Cat and the Rat), published 1756

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series Title

La Fontaine's "Fables": Fable CLXIV

Medium

hand-colored etching

Dimensions

plate: 29 × 21 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

sheet: 39.5 × 27.6 cm (15 9/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ware

Catalogue Raisonné

Locquin 1912, no. 1112

Accession Number

1975.81.4

Artists / Makers

Quentin-Pierre Chedel (artist) French, 1705 - 1763

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

Image Use

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Inscription

"J. B. Oudry inv." recto, lower left margin. "Chedel Sculp." recto, lower right margin. "75" recto, upper right margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Bibliography

1912: Locquin, Jean. "Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry ..." Archives de l'Art francais n.s. 6 (1912): 1-209.

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