Oudry’s Painted Menagerie Portraits of Exotic Animals in by Edited by Mary Morton

By Edited by Mary Morton

Within the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry validated himself because the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, nonetheless lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie specializes in a set of 11 life-size images of unique animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted through Oudry among 1739 and 1752. those work finally stumbled on their manner into the ducal assortment in Schwerin, Germany. between them is the brilliant portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who grew to become a star in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for greater than a century, and it truly is awarded right here in its newly conserved nation. desk of Contents Foreword Michael model Acknowledgments Mary Morton “A lengthy operating existence, massive study and masses thought”: An advent to the paintings and profession of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) Colin B. Bailey Pictorial kin: New facts on Jean-Baptiste Oudry and the courtroom of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Christoph Frank Menageries as Princely must haves and Mirrors in their occasions Marina Belozerskaya method and culture in Oudry’s Animal Drawings Christine Giviskos “Animal enthusiasts Are educated” Charissa Bremer-David Notes at the recovery of Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s Rhinoceros and Lion Mark Leonard Oudry’s Painted Menagerie Mary Morton Plates chosen Bibliography Index in regards to the Authors Mary Morton is affiliate curator of work on the J. Paul Getty Museum. Colin Bailey is leader curator on the Frick assortment. Marina Belozerskaya is an self sufficient pupil dependent in l. a.. Charissa Bremer-David is affiliate curator of sculpture and ornamental arts on the J. Paul Getty Museum. Christoph Frank is a professor on the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera Italiana. Christine Giviskos is assistant curator of drawings on the J. Paul Getty Museum. Mark Leonard is conservator of work on the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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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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