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After the Hunt: Two Hounds beside a Boar's Head
Jean-Baptiste Oudry1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Two dogs, one laying and one standing, are beside a boar's head and part of a lion's hide at the base of a classical ruin, in a landscape setting at lower right.
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- Title: After the Hunt: Two Hounds beside a Boar's Head
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
- Creator Lifespan: 1686/1755
- Date Created: 1740
- Physical Dimensions: w244 x h191 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, white gouache on brown-gray paper mounted on cardboard, ruled border in pen and black ink
- Provenance: Unknown collector ("B" - Lugt suppl. 341 b); Sarah Cooper Hewitt, New York; Erskine Hewitt, New York (sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Oct. 18-22, 1938, no. 562); acquired by the Museum from the Erskine Hewitt sale.
- Paper Support: Brown-gray paper mounted on cardboard
- Markings: Unidentified collector's mark: "B"[in script] inscribed in a circle (Lugt, Suppl. 341 b).
- Inscribed: In ink lower left corner: B.Oudry
- Exhibitions: New York-The Frick Collection- Watteau and His World, French Drawings from 1700-1750, October 19, 1999- January 9, 2000; on view in Ottawa, Canada- National Gallery of Canada, 11 February -8 May 2000Toronto, Canada-Art Gallery of Ontario, French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections, September 1972- May 1973.
- Dimensions: 19.1 x 24.4 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/8in.)
- Bibliography: Wintermute, Alan. Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750. (New York: American Federation of the Arts and London: Holberton, 1999), pp. 228-230, (illus.229), 252-53.Art Gallery of Ontario, French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections (Toronto, Canada, 1972, p. 188, cat. no. 199; p. 104, pl. VIII.
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