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
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creation date: 1748
creation date earliest: 1748
creation date latest: 1748
current location:
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
find spot:
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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description: light brown laid paper
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inscriptions:
inscription: signd, lower left, in brown ink: JB. Oudry 1748
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Nijman (Neyman), Amsterdam
date: ?-1776
footnotes:
citations:
(Basan, Paris, July 8-11, 1776, no. 613, sold to Fouquet)
date: 1776
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Sold for 80 livres according to annotated copy of sale catalogue at INHA, Paris.
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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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citations:
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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Opperman, Hal N. Jean-Baptiste Oudry. New York: Garland Pub, 1977.
page number: Mentioned: p. 738, no. D612
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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
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Annual Report 1997. 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." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 131 (March 1998).
page number: Mentioned: p. 51, no. 204
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"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:
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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