Still Life: A Dead Hare, A Dead Red-Legged Partridge and Two Dead Snipe
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
(French, 1686–1775)
Date1750
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 82.2 × 66 cm (32 3/8 × 26 in.)
framed: 104.1 × 86.7 × 8.3 cm (41 × 34 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
framed: 104.1 × 86.7 × 8.3 cm (41 × 34 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineTheodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Fund
Object number1960.8
Label TextOudry was a favorite painter of the French King Louis XV (1710–1774), an avid huntsman. Louis XV commissioned him to create a tapestry series of his hunts, paint portraits of his favorite hunting dogs, and ultimately named him official painter of the royal hunts. Hunting was a pastime available only to the royal court. Consequently, displaying paintings of hunting trophies like this one allowed collectors to indicate that their tastes aligned with those of the aristocracy.ProvenancePrivate Collection, Germany; then sold in Berlin, March 15, 1933, no. 76; then D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam Holland; sold to the Worcester Art Museum, January 1960.On View
On view
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1865–1870
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
about 1865–1870
