L13040

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Lot 83
  • 83

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Oudry
  • Les Fables de La Fontaine: Les Filles de MinĂ©e
  • Point of the brush and black ink and grey wash heightened with white on blue paper, within framing lines in brown ink and blue wash;
    signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower left: JB Oudry / 1734

Provenance

For the provenance of the complete set of drawings from which this originates, see the previous lot.

This drawing:
Brooke Astor,
her Estate sale, New York, Sotheby's, 24-25 September 2012, lot 132

Literature

For the very extensive literature on the whole group of drawings, see H. Opperman, op.cit., below, and also sale catalogue, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1996, under lot 96
J. Locquin, 'Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), Archives de l'art français, Paris 1912, vol. VI, pp. 152-163, no. 1202
H.N. Opperman, Jean Baptiste Oudry, Chicago 1977, vol. I, pp. 99-101, vol. II, p. 710, no. D495
H.N. Opperman, J.-B. Oudry, exhib. cat., Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais,  1982, pp. 157-9

Condition

The drawing is in very good, fresh condition apart from some unobtrusive foxing and some minor nicks and creases in the sheet edges.
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Catalogue Note

See note to the previous lot.