ID 991691
Lot 65 | JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
Belphégor in the guise of Roderic, and the farmer Matheo
signed and dated ‘JB. Oudry/ 1734’ (lower right)
brush and black ink, grey wash, heightened with white, on blue paper, within a fictive mount
30.7 x 25.9 cm (1 1/8 x 10 3⁄10 in.)
Provenance
Jean-Louis Regnard de Montenault, Paris, circa 1751.
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
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
Claus Virch (1927-2012), Bermuda Islands (Art Associates Partnership), who dismembers the second album.
Private collection, Geneva.
with Adrian Ward-Jackson, London.
with Kate de Rothschild, London, and Didier Aaron, New York (Master Drawings, 1993, part of no. 15, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.
Literature
J. Locquin, ‘Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry, peintre du roi (1686–1755)’, Archives de l'art français, 1912, no. 1207.
H. N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 1972, published New York and London, 1977, II, no. D493.
Exhibited
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Fables from Aesop to Thurber, 1965.
Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Classic Taste. Drawings and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Horace Brock, 2000, unpaginated.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 107, ill. (essay by Clifford S. Ackley).
Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686 - 1755) |
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Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686 - 1755) |
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Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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