ADVERTISEMENT But there was one important piece missing. Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s celebrated 18th-century still life 'The White Duck' had survived the sale to Russia as well as the various smaller ...

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) is known for depicting animals and royal hunts amid magnificent landscapes. Two successive exhibitions—the first at the Château de Chantilly’s Musée Condé, the second ...

Like the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo, there’s something about French painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s life-size, 1749 portrait of Clara -- an Indian white rhino imported to Europe by a Dutch ...

Much of this book is devoted to paintings by three celebrated French artists: Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) and François Boucher (1703-70). However, it brings to ...

‘The Wolf and the Fox,’ 1733, Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686-1755); Black ink and gray wash heightened with white opaque watercolor on blue paper; frame design in black ink, gray wash and ...

The latest round of Old Master sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s marked the most robust in recent seasons, bolstered by top-notch private collection offerings (each house could boast a ...

A rare 18th century album of 138 illustrations by French artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry was displayed at Christie's in New York. It sold for €2 million. An illustrated album of ‘Les Fables de La ...