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A Hare and a Leg of Lamb

A Hare and a Leg of Lamb

1742
(French, 1686–1755)
Framed: 118 x 92.5 x 6 cm (46 7/16 x 36 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 98.2 x 73.5 cm (38 11/16 x 28 15/16 in.)

Did You Know?

This lavish display of game was painted one year after a devastating famine gripped France.

Description

Oudry used a starkly simple composition and sterile background to emphasize his virtuosity in depicting textures, a highly desirable skill of still-life painters at this time. These artists were aiming for the highest level of accuracy—an effect of the Enlightenment, the contemporary intellectual movement that emphasized scientific reasoning in all pursuits. These paintings were generally displayed in hunting lodges or dining rooms, as a glorification of the hunt and the bounty it brings.
  • until at least 1956
    M. de Vaize and the de Vaize Family
    December 15—16, 1958
    (Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France, December 15—16, 1958, no. 64)
    December 4, 1963
    (Sale: Palais Galliera, Paris, France, December 4, 1963, no. 200, to Cailleux)
    Private Collection, New York, NY
    -1969
    [Eugene V. Thaw (1927-2018), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art].
    1969-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Galerie Charpentier. Tableaux anciens, dessins, aquarelles, gouaches, pastel; portrait de Gluck par J.S. Duplessis; orfèvrerie égyptienne; rares gobelets d'or d'Egypte, XVIIIe dynastie; objets d'art de haute époque. 1958. no. 64, illus. pl. XI
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    Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France), and L. Dussieux. Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1968. II, 388
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    Opperman, Hal, and Jean-Baptiste Oudry. J.-B. Oudry, 1686-1755: [Exhibition Catalog]. 1983. pp. 206-7, cat. no. 77
    "Exposition J.B Oudry, Grand Palais,...: Kunstchronik, v. 36, no. 2, (Feb. 1983). p. 93
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    Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
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    Salon of 1742. Louvre, Paris, France (August 25–September 21, 1742).
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