Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s celebrated 18th-century ... grisly subtext of what could be taken as a post-hunt scene, The White Duck is a beautiful painting, with the folds and texture of every surface ...

Two successive exhibitions—the first at the Château de Chantilly’s Musée Condé, the second at the Château de Fontainebleau—have presented a broad picture of Oudry’s art using paintings, tapestries, ...

The pantheon of world'“famous animals is relatively small, said Meredith Martin in ArtForum. But 'œbefore Barbaro or Dolly the cloned sheep, there was Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who reigned as ...

Much of this book is devoted to paintings by three celebrated French artists: Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755 ... a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan ...