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 ...

Christie’s holds the auction record for Oudry, which was set at $2.7 million last year for the sale of an illustration from the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, according to the Artnet Price Database.

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 ...

But her portrait was captured for all time by the artist Jean'“Baptiste Oudry, 'œwho scrupulously studied her form before embarking on an enormous, life'“size rendering.' The Getty Museum's ...

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 ...

In The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher, art historian and curator David Pullins masterfully interrogates the status of the image as an object in eighteenth-century French art. Have you ever ...

The greatest painter of animals in the eighteenth century, Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), not only portrayed animals with exceptional vitality in traditional genres, but also changed the way t ...

‘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 ...