id: 159900 accession number: 1997.191 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.191 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:57.760000 Wild Sow and Her Young Attacked by Dogs, 1748. Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755). Pen and brown and gray ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache on light brown laid paper; sheet: 37.7 x 51.7 cm (14 13/16 x 20 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1997.191 title: Wild Sow and Her Young Attacked by Dogs title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1748 creation date earliest: 1748 creation date latest: 1748 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: Pen and brown and gray ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache on light brown laid paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Locquin 675 --- CREATORS * Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.7 x 51.7 cm (14 13/16 x 20 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: light brown laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signd, lower left, in brown ink: JB. Oudry 1748 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00 Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Nijman (Neyman), Amsterdam date: ?-1776 footnotes: citations: (Basan, Paris, July 8-11, 1776, no. 613, sold to Fouquet) date: 1776 footnotes: *
Sold for 80 livres according to annotated copy of sale catalogue at INHA, Paris.
citations: Fouquet date: 1776-? footnotes: citations: Fäsch family, Basel date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Private Collection, Switzerland date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Marianne Joannides, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1997 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1997- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Though Oudry was a prolific draftsman, he purposely kept his drawings during his lifetime, hoping that they would be an asset for his heirs after his death. digital description: Jean-Baptiste Oudry began his career as a portraitist but gradually became known for his paintings of animals and hunting scenes. These images attracted the attention of Louis XV, and Oudry became one of France's foremost decorative painters during the king's reign. Here, the artist highlighted a violent battle between a sow and a group of dogs. The drawing relates to one of Oudry's most successful Salon paintings, which was exhibited to great acclaim in 1748. The sketchy lines and lack of detail throughout the sheet suggest that it was likely a study made in preparation for the later canvas, which was purchased by Louis XV and installed in one of his homes. wall description: As one of France’s foremost decorative painters under Louis XV, Oudry specialized in depictions of animals and hunts. This drawing relates to one of Oudry's paintings that was installed in the royal Château de la Muette. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS
Catalogue d'une belle collection de dessins italiens, flamands, hollandois, et françois...le tout rassemblé avec soins & dépenses, par M. Neyman, Amateur à Amsterdam (Paris: Basan, 1776).
page number: Lot 613 url: Locquin, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry, peintre du roi (1686-1755). Paris: Jean Schemit, 1912. page number: Mentioned: p. 125, no. 675 url: Opperman, Hal N. Jean-Baptiste Oudry. New York: Garland Pub, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 738, no. D612 url: Opperman, Hal N. J.-B. Oudry, 1686-1755. Exh. Cat. Fort Worth, TX: Kimball Art Museum, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 204, under no. 110 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Annual Report 1997. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 32; Mentioned: p. 44 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major European Porcelain Crucifix, Pre-Columbian Figure, and Other Works Added to CMA Collection,” December 3, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4165 "Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1997." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 131 (March 1998). page number: Mentioned: p. 51, no. 204 url: "Cleveland Acquires Oudry and Long." Drawing 19 (Winter-Spring 1998): 101. page number: Reproduced: p. 101 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 41, p. 11, pp. 110-111, 288-289; Reproduced: p. 110 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.191/1997.191_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.191/1997.191_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.191/1997.191_full.tif