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accession number: 1969.53
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A Hare and a Leg of Lamb, 1742. Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755). Oil on canvas; framed: 118 x 92.5 x 6 cm (46 7/16 x 36 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 98.2 x 73.5 cm (38 11/16 x 28 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1969.53
title: A Hare and a Leg of Lamb
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creation date: 1742
creation date earliest: 1742
creation date latest: 1742
current location: 216B French and German
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: France, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - French 18th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 118 x 92.5 x 6 cm (46 7/16 x 36 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 98.2 x 73.5 cm (38 11/16 x 28 15/16 in.)
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inscription: signed lower left: J.B. Oudry / 1742
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1969
opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
title: Chardin and the Still Life Tradition in France
opening date: 1979-06-06T04:00:00
Chardin and the Still Life Tradition in France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 6-August 12, 1979).
title: Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals, 1750-1920
opening date: 2006-03-26T00:00:00
Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals, 1750-1920. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (March 26-August 17, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Salon of 1742. Louvre, Paris, France (August 25–September 21, 1742).', 'opening_date': '1742-08-25T04:56:02Z'}
* {'description': "Le Cabinet de l'Amateur. Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (February–April, 1956).", 'opening_date': '1956-02-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
M. de Vaize and the de Vaize Family
date: until at least 1956
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(Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France, December 15—16, 1958, no. 64)
date: December 15—16, 1958
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(Sale: Palais Galliera, Paris, France, December 4, 1963, no. 200, to Cailleux)
date: December 4, 1963
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Private Collection, New York, NY
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[Eugene V. Thaw (1927-2018), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art].
date: -1969
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1969-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Salon (Exhibition : Paris, France), and Orry. Explication des peintures, sculptures, et autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'Académie royale: dont l'exposition a été ordonnée suivant l'intention de Sa Majesté, par M. Orry ... dans le grand Salon du Louvre ... a commencer le jour de S. Loüis 25. Aoust 1742. pour finir le jour de S. Matthieu 21. Septembre suivant. Paris: J. Collombat, 1742.
page number: cat. no. 35
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Locquin, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry: peintre du roi (1686-1755). Paris: Jean Schemit, 1912.
page number: no. 74
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Musée de l'Orangerie. Le cabinet de l'amateur, organisé par la Société des amis du Louvre en souvenir de Monsieur A.-S. Henraux, son président 1932-1953 [exposition] février - avril 1956. [Paris]: Éditions des musées nationaux, 1956.
page number: cat. no. 81
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Galerie Charpentier. Tableaux anciens, dessins, aquarelles, gouaches, pastel; portrait de Gluck par J.S. Duplessis; orfèvrerie égyptienne; rares gobelets d'or d'Egypte, XVIIIe dynastie; objets d'art de haute époque. 1958.
page number: no. 64, illus. pl. XI
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Faré, Michel. La nature morte en France; son historie et son évolutuion du XVIIe au XXe siècle. Genève: P. Gailler, 1962.
page number: I, 142, 213
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Musée Galliéra, and Étienne Ader. Tableaux anciens, objets d'art et de bel ameublement principalement du XVIIIe siècle, bronzes, sculptures, glaces, paravent, sièges et meubles estampillés des maîtres ébénistes, tapisseries anciennes, tapis de la Savonnerie, tapis Hispano-Portugais, tapis d'Orient. Paris: Palais Galliera, 1963.
page number: no. 200
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Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France), and L. Dussieux. Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1968.
page number: II, 388
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Extrait de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1213 (Feb).
page number: p. 70, no. 323.
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Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (1970).
page number: pp. 18, 48, no. 146
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307
Davidson, Ruth, "Museum Accessions," Antiques, (November 1970).
page number: p. 705, repr.
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Lanes, Jerold, ed., "Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums", The Art Quarterly, vol. XXXIII, no. 3 (Autumn, 1970).
page number: p. 323
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Talbot, William S. “Jean-Baptiste Oudry: Hare and Leg of Lamb.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 5 (1970).
page number: pp. 149-59
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152331
Clark, Carol C. “Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin: Still Life with Herring.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 9 (1974).
page number: pp. 309, 313, n. 1, fig. 1
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152549
Faré, Michel, and Fabrice Faré. La vie silencieuse en France: la nature morte au XVIIIe siècle. Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1976.
page number: pp. 121, 125
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Opperman, Hal N. Jean-Baptiste Oudry. New York: Garland Pub, 1977.
page number: I, 120, 189, 552, no. P509, and II, 839, 945, 1116, fig. 288
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 178
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n198
Weisberg, Gabriel P., and William S. Talbot. Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.
page number: cat. no. 5
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Dunow, Esti. Chaim Soutine, 1893-1943. 1981.
page number: fig. 139
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 106; Mentioned: p. 107
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Opperman, Hal, and Jean-Baptiste Oudry. J.-B. Oudry, 1686-1755: [Exhibition Catalog]. 1983.
page number: pp. 206-7, cat. no. 77
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"Exposition J.B Oudry, Grand Palais,...: Kunstchronik, v. 36, no. 2, (Feb. 1983).
page number: p. 93
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Opperman, Hal, "J-B. Oudry:Partridge and Young Rabbit Hung by the Feet," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, Vol. XLII, no. 2, (1987-88).
page number: fig. 6, p. 50
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Musee du Louvre, Department des peintures. Nouvelles Acquisitions du Department des Peintures (1987-1990), Paris:Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux, (1991).
page number: p. 118
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Ebert-Schifferer, S., and Russell Stockman. Still life: a history. New York: Abrams, 1999.
page number: pp. 248 (repr.), 249, 250, fig. 181
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Melville, Stephen W. The Lure of the Object. Williamstown, Mass: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005.
page number: fig. 9, pg. 170
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Lippincott, Louise, and Andreas Blühm. Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals, 1750-1900. London: Merrell, 2005.
page number: p. 37
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Daverio, Philippe. The ideal museum: an art lover's dream collection. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2012.
page number: pp. 64-5
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Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa. The Painter's Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018.
page number: Mentioned p. 111-115; Reproduced: p. 112, 115
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