Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I
Hyde Park Antiques: Past, Present and Future Part I
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Still Life of Peaches in a Porcelain Bowl, Together with Grapes, Figs, a Melon, and a Purse with Coins and Playing Cards, all upon a Stone Ledge
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January 31, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1686 - 1755
Still Life of Peaches in a Porcelain Bowl, Together with Grapes, Figs, a Melon, and a Purse with Coins and Playing Cards, all upon a Stone Ledge
signed and indistinctly dated J. B. Oudry/ 1722 (?) (lower center)
oil on canvas
canvas: 36 1/4 by 28 3/4 in.; 92 by 73 cm
framed: 42 3/4 by 35 1/2 in.; 108.5 by 90.5 cm
Sotheby's London, 6 July 2000, lot 212
Initially trained as a portrait painter under Nicolas de Largillierre, Jean-Baptiste Oudry went on to make celebrated contributions to the genres of landscape, animal, and still life painting. The simplicity of the composition and subtle lighting bring to mind the works of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin who, thirteen years Oudry’s junior, had just begun producing still lifes and was certainly aware of the works of the elder master. Indeed, the two artists would mutually influence one another from the mid-1720s onward, always mindful of what the other was doing.
The same purse with coins and playing cards appears in Oudry's signed and dated painting of 1722, Allegory of Europe at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The same purse with coins and playing cards appears in Oudry's signed and dated painting of 1722, Allegory of Europe at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.