The Partridge and the Cocks

1732

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Associated Names
Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Artist, French, 1686 - 1755

The image shows a scene with a rustic hut, a tree, and a wooden fence. The background features a sketched forest with treetops. The brushstrokes create texture in the trees and birds. The color palette consists mainly of blue shades.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and black ink, gray wash, and white gouache on blue laid paper//royal blue wash border

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.4 x 19.2 cm (9 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 31 x 26 cm (12 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1978.50.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Opperman 1977, no. 436

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. 82-83.

Bibliography

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: 114, fig. 1 (color).

Inscriptions

lower right in brush and brown ink: JB. Oudry 1732

Wikidata ID

Q64581173

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