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Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Paris 1686-1755 Beauvais)
Illustration of one of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine: The crow, the gazelle, the tortoise and the rat (III)
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Paris 1686-1755 Beauvais)
Illustration of one of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine: The crow, the gazelle, the tortoise and the rat (III)
signed and dated 'JB. Oudry / 1733'
brush and black ink, grey wash, heightened with white, on blue paper, with fictive mount
12¼ x 10 1/8 in. (31.1 x 25.8 cm.) (the sheet)
Illustration of one of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine: The crow, the gazelle, the tortoise and the rat (III)
signed and dated 'JB. Oudry / 1733'
brush and black ink, grey wash, heightened with white, on blue paper, with fictive mount
12¼ x 10 1/8 in. (31.1 x 25.8 cm.) (the sheet)
Provenance
see previous lot.
Literature
H.N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, New York and London, 1977, II, pp. 682-5, 707, no. D460.
Engraved
in reverse for the Fables de La Fontaine, fable CCXXXVIII, pl. 3