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Jean-Baptiste Oudry

The Partridge and the Cocks, 1732

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series Title

La Fontaine's Fables

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Opperman 1977, no. 436

Accession Number

1978.50.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Exhibition History

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 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).

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