- 156
* Jean-Baptiste Oudry Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais
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Description
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry
- the old cat and the young mouse from the fables of la fontaine
- signed and dated in brown ink lower right: .JB. Oudry/1733 and numbered on the verso: 116.t.2.e
- drawn with the point of the brush in black ink and gray wash, heightened with white, on blue paper, with framing lines in dark brown ink and blue wash
Provenance
As for lot 154.
Literature
For the very extensive full literature on the whole group of drawings, see Opperman, op.cit., below, and also sale catalogue, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1996, under lot 96.
Jean Locquin, 'Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)', in Archives de l'art français, Paris, n.s., vol. VI, 1912, pp. 152-163, cats. 993-1072 (this drawing cat. 1173);
Hal N. Opperman, Jean - Baptiste Oudry, 1977, vol. II, pp. 99-101, 128, 143; vol. II, pp. 682, ff., cats. D221-359 (this drawing cat. D475)
Jean Locquin, 'Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)', in Archives de l'art français, Paris, n.s., vol. VI, 1912, pp. 152-163, cats. 993-1072 (this drawing cat. 1173);
Hal N. Opperman, Jean - Baptiste Oudry, 1977, vol. II, pp. 99-101, 128, 143; vol. II, pp. 682, ff., cats. D221-359 (this drawing cat. D475)
Catalogue Note
See note to lot 154.