Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Oudry Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais

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Description

Jean-Baptiste Oudry
study of a lion
black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper

Provenance

Possibly Paignon-Dijonval collection

Literature

probably H. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, New York and London 1977, vol. II, p. 793, cat. no. D776

Catalogue Note

A large painting of a lion in a very similar pose was bought from Oudry in 1752 by the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who made a large collection of works by Oudry (see Animaux d'Oudry, exhibition catalogue, Fontainebleau and Versailles, 2003-4, p. 141, fig. 3). A drawing of a lion, in this medium and with these dimensions, was in the Paignon-Dijonval collection (see Literature below).