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JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)

Lot 46
25.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
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$ 2 700 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 887474
Lot 46 | JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)

Album containing a frontispiece and 138 illustrations for books I to VI of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

each drawing (except nos. 16, 23, 65 and 103) signed ‘JB. Oudry’ and dated ‘1729’, ‘1730’, or ‘1731’, the frontispiece dated ‘1752’; with a handwritten title page ‘FABLES/ DE/ LA FONTAINE/ DESSINEES/ PAR J.B. OUDRY/ PEINTRE ORD.RE DU ROY/ ET/ DE SON ACADEMIE DE PEINTURE ET SCULPTURE// OUVRAGE/ Commencé en 1729/ Et fini en 1734./ CONTENANT 245 FABLES.’; each drawing pasted onto the pages of the album, and above numbered from 1 to 139, but skipping 48; opposite each drawing the fable’s number (in Roman numerals) and title; on the last three pages an alphabetical index of the fables’ titles; pasted into the beginning of the book a handwritten note by De Bure frères dated 1828 describing the contents of the album and of the second volume

brush and black (in a few cases brown) ink, gray wash, heightened with white, on blue paper, pen and black ink framing lines, blue wash; bound in contemporary blue leather gilt with lettering on the spine ‘DESSEINS DES/ FABLES DE LA FONTAINE PAR/ I.B. OUDRY’ and ‘PREMIERE PARTIE’

each drawing circa 9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in. (24 x 19 cm.), each page circa 12 1/8 x 10 in. (30.8 x 25.5 cm.)
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