Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)

A Bird of Prey flushing Ducks by a Pond

signed and dated 'JB. Oudry 1733'
28¾ x 38 7/8in. (73 x 98.7cm.)

Provenance

Sent by the artist to Schwerin in 1734 as a present for Hafften, personal secretary to the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Acquired by the present owner from a German private collector in the early 1980s

Literature

P. Seidel, Beiträge zur Lebensgeschihte Jean-Baptiste Oudry's, Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, XIII, 1890, pp. 95-6
J. Locquin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry peintre du roi (1686-1755), Archives de l'art français, nouv. pér., VI, 1912, no. 302
H.N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, New York and London 1977, I, p. 469, no. P301
H. Opperman, catalogue of the exhibition, J.-B. Oudry, Grand Palais, Paris, 1 Oct. 1982-3 Jan. 1983, p. 193
H. Opperman, catalogue of the exhibition, J.-B. Oudry, Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, 26 Feb.-5 June 1983, p. 170

Engraved

Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, 1773, with the inscription 'Gemahlt von Oudrÿ. 1733' (an impression in the Albertina: Paris exhibition catalogue, fig. 102e; Fort Worth exhibition catalogue, fig. 91)

Lot Essay

The present composition was previously only known to Professor Hal Opperman from Tischbein's engraving; we are grateful to him for confirming the autograph status of the present painting from a transparency. It would seem to be the artist's earliest representation of the theme

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