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JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)

Lot 106
01.02.2024 12:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 10 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1132715
Lot 106 | JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)

The ingratitude and injustice of men regarding Fortune (Jean de La Fontaine, Fables choisies, book VII, fable XIV)

signed and dated ‘J.B. Oudry 1731’ (lower left) and with inscription ‘14. 2 vol.’ (verso)

brush and black and gray ink, heightened with white, blue wash, pen and black and brown ink framing lines, on blue paper within a fictive mount

11 7⁄8 x 10 in. (32.2 x 25.5 cm)





Provenance

Jean-Louis Regnard de Montenault, Paris, circa 1751, together with all of the artist’s other illustrations for La Fontaine’s fables, bound in two albums.

with De Bure frères, Paris;

Jean-Jacques de Bure (1765-1853), Paris, 1828; Paris, 1-18 December 1853, part of lot 344 (both volumes), sold for 1,800 francs to

Comte Antoine-Claire Thibaudeau (1765-1854), Paris; both volumes possibly given by him to

Eugénie Doche (1821-1900), Paris; both volumes sold by her for 2,500 francs to

Librairie Fontaine, Paris; both volumes sold for 5,000 francs in 1856 to

Aaron Euryale dit Félix Solar (1815-1871), Paris; Paris, 19 November-18 December 1860, part of lot 627 (both volumes), sold for 6,100 francs in 1860 to Cléder for

Baron Isidore-Justin-Séverin Taylor (1789-1879), Paris.

Emile Péreire (1800-1875), Paris (both volumes).

with Librairie Morgand et Fatout, Paris, bought circa 1876 (Bulletin de la librairie Morgand et Fatout, I, no. 6, January 1877, p. 482); both volumes sold to

Louis Roederer (1845-1880), Reims; by inheritance to his nephew,

Louis-Victor Olry-Roederer (1860-1903), Reims.

with Agnew’s, London; both volumes sold in 1923, with the rest of Olry-Roederer’s library, to

Albert Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1875-1903), New York;

with Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia; both volumes sold circa 1946 to the following;

with Raphaël Esmérian (1903-1976), Paris (his ex-libris); Palais Galliera, Paris, 6 June 1973, part of lot 46 (both volumes), sold for 2,000,000 francs to the following;

with Claus Virch (1927-2012), Bermuda Islands (Art Associates Partnership), who dismembers the second album, which included the drawing offered here and the previous and following lots.

with Kate de Rothschild, London, and Didier Aaron, New York (Master Drawings, 1993, part of no. 15, ill.).

Private collection, United States.



Literature

J. Locquin, ‘Catalogue raisonné de l’Œuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry, peintre du roi (1686–1755)’, Archives de l'art français, VI, 1912, p. 164, under no. 1086.

H.N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1972, published New York and London, 1977, II, no. D373.



Exhibited

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Fables from Aesop to Thurber, 1965 (without catalogue).

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 101, ill. (essay by C. S. Ackley).
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