“Dogs with a Dead Hare” by Jean-Baptiste Oudry from the Collection of Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts
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https://doi.org/10.18688/aa200-1-13Keywords:
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Marquise de Pompadour, the Bellevue Palace, attribution of a painting, French painting of the 18th century, animalistic paintingAbstract
Jean-Baptiste Oudry entered the history of painting as an animal painter by virtue of his abundant pictorial heritage portraying hunting scenes. The Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts holds a painting presenting one of the author’s hunting scenes, “Dogs with a Dead Hare”. Further information was later received which, with the utmost certainty, confirmed Oudry’s authorship of the painting and shed light on the history of its creation.The Chelyabinsk canvas was part of a series of four paintings produced by the artist on commission of the favorite of French King Louis XV Marquise de Pompadour for her residence in Bellevue. The entire series of paintings was exhibited at The Salon of the Louvre in 1750 and the exhibition catalog clearly states that in the background “Bellevue Castle is visible at a distance.” Thus, it is possible to date the Chelyabinsk piece of art at no later than 1750.
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