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Jean-Baptiste Oudry

The Partridge Saves Her Young, 1732

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series Title

La Fontaine's Fables

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

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Constance Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Opperman 1977, no. 428

Accession Number

1978.45.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Exhibition History

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 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).

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