Eye of the Painter & the Elements of Beauty by Andrew Loomis

By Andrew Loomis

Analyzes a variety of parts of good looks - harmony, simplicity, colour, layout, rhythm, etc., from the sensible viewpoint of the artist. For amateurs.

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1-7 (for the yield from the sale and for payments owed by the members of Oudry’s family for works acquired at the auction). The notarial documents confirm Gougenot’s statement (1761, p. 371) that the collection fetched 40,000 livres. 130. Archives Nationales, Minutier Central, LIII/348 (see note 109 above), “Masse de partage,” nos. 15, 25, 29. 131. Archives Nationales, Minutier Central, LIII/348 (see note 109 above), “Masse de partage,” nos. 10–12. For the silversmiths in Oudry’s circle, see Solodkoff 2000 and Fontainbleau–Versailles 2003–4, pp.

Sahut, “Un exceptionnel décor de Jean-Bapstiste Oudry entre au Louvre,” Revue du Louvre, la revue des musées de France 1 (February 2003), pp. — Oudry (exceptionally) painted in 1722, see Ottawa–Washington–Berlin 2003, p. 21. 27. Sahut (see note 26 above). Inventoried among the contents of Oudry’s studio at the Tuileries was “le portrait de Mr. Fagon, prisée la somme de six livres”; see Archives Nationales, Minutier Central, LIII/345, “Inventaire après décès,” Jean-Baptise Oudry, 7 May 1755, Tableaux et copies [Tuileries], no.

For Oudry’s gouache Study of a Leopard, ca. 1732, in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, see Grate 1994 (note 45 above), p. 237, and Fontainebleau–Versailles 2003–4, pp. 160–61. 102. Paris 1982, pp. 168–69; Droguet in Fontainebleau–Versailles 2003–4, p. 94. 28 BAILEY 104. Paris 1982, pp. 208–10; Schwerin 2000, pp. 62–63. 106. ”: Gougenot 1761, p. 382. 107. J. Guiffrey, “Scellés et Inventaires d’Artistes,” Nouvelles Archives de L’art français (Paris, 1884), pp. 203–4. The birth date of Oudry’s eldest son is given in Archives Nationales, Minutier Central, LIII/349, “Notoriété,” 2 July 1756; according to Opperman (1977, vol.

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