id:			159900
accession number:	1997.191
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.191
updated:		2025-05-08 11:22:03.391000

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
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creation date:			1748
creation date earliest:		1748
creation date latest:		1748
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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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
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catalogue raisonne: Locquin 675

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CREATORS

* Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 37.7 x 51.7 cm (14 13/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	light brown laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signd, lower left, in brown ink: JB. Oudry 1748
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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
	<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Nijman (Neyman), Amsterdam
	date: ?-1776
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	(Basan, Paris, July 8-11, 1776, no. 613, sold to Fouquet)
	date: 1776
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			* <div><!--block-->Sold for 80 livres according to annotated copy of sale catalogue at INHA, Paris.</div>
			
			
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	Fouquet
	date: 1776-?
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	Fäsch family, Basel
	date: ?-?
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	Private Collection, Switzerland
	date: ?-?
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	(Marianne Joannides, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1997
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1997-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<div><!--block-->Catalogue d'une belle collection de dessins italiens, flamands, hollandois, et françois...le tout rassemblé avec soins &amp; dépenses, par M. Neyman, Amateur à Amsterdam (Paris: Basan, 1776).</div>
	page number: 	Lot 613
	url:		

	Locquin, Jean. <em>Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry, peintre du roi (1686-1755)</em>. Paris: Jean Schemit, 1912.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 125, no. 675
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	Opperman, Hal N. <em>Jean-Baptiste Oudry</em>. New York: Garland Pub, 1977.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 738, no. D612
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	Opperman, Hal N. <em>J.-B. Oudry, 1686-1755</em>. Exh. Cat. Fort Worth, TX: Kimball Art Museum, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 204, under no. 110
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Annual Report 1997</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 32; Mentioned: p. 44
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	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.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4165

	"Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1997." <em>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</em> 131 (March 1998).
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 51, no. 204
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	"Cleveland Acquires Oudry and Long." <em>Drawing</em> 19 (Winter-Spring 1998): 101.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 101
	url:		

	DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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:		

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