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JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS) ET ATELIER

Lot 224
18.05.2022 14:30UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 120 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 761503
Lot 224 | JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS) ET ATELIER
Estimate value
€ 120 000 – 180 000
JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS) ET ATELIERChien barbet attrapant un butordans un très beau cadre en bois sculpté doré, travail français d'époque Régencesigné et daté ‘JB Oudry. 1725’ (en bas, à droite)huile sur toile130 x 98 cm (51 x 38 1⁄2 in.) Provenance Très probablement dans la collection du peintre Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (1702-1766) ; puis par descendance aux actuels propriétaires. Special notice This item will be transferred to an offsite warehouse after the sale. Please refer to department for information about storage charges and collectiondetails. Post lot text JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY AND WORKSHOP, BARBET DOG CATCHING A BITTERN, OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AND DATEDDuring his training in the studio of Nicolas de Largilliere (1656-1746), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) becomes closely acquainted with French high society, who would become, in later years, his principal patrons. We can count among them the King Louis XV (1710-1774), who commissions from the painter a series of portraits of the royal pack in 1725, a series which was lauded for its close resemblance to its canine models and which included Petite fille, Polydore, Turlu and Mignonne. He is subsequently awarded the title of Peintre ordinaire de la vénerie in 1726, thus allowing him to follow, and record, the royal hunts. The popularity of dogs as a subject matter in French painting at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century can be partially explained by the passion that French sovereigns had for hunting, and conjointly, their dogs. Whilst the genre is already well established in Holland by then, popularised notably by Paul de Vos (1591-1678) and Paul Potter (1625-1654), in France the dog is rarely seen as an independent theme before the 18th century. However, a notable exception is Laurent de La Hyre’s (1606-1656) Deux chiens dans un paysage, currently at the musée des beaux-arts d’Arras (inv. 964.2.1). Oudry plays an important role in the renewal of the genre, and our paintings are a perfect illustration of the way that French 18th-century artists reinvent and redefine pictorial genres. Chien barbet attrapant un butor combines several frequent motifs of the artist’s oeuvre. In particular, we can relate our painting to a composition in Stockholm’s national Museum (inv. NM 861), which represents the same scene and which is, like ours, signed and dated to 1725 (H. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Phd thesis, Chicago, unievrsity of Chicago, 1972, I, p. 433, n°P209). The lack of human presence in this representation of the capture of a wild animal is reminiscent of the genre’s Flemish tradition as it was perpetrated by Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and his workshop. Our scene’s dramatic lighting, as well as the meticulous rendering of the dog’s facial expression, focuses the spectator’s attention on the dog, thus making our painting simultaneously a hunting scene as well as a canine portrait. Pointer anglais et trophée de chasse (next lot) also marries the genre of the canine portrait to themes of the hunt, which is here evoked by the still life composed of a rabbit, a pheasant and a rifle. The motif of the dog guarding hunting trophies allows us to symbolically consider this painting as the thematic conclusion of the aforementioned scene. We can relate our painting to a composition in the collection of the château de Beloeil in Belgium, which is also signed and dated to 1725 (H. Opperman, op. cit., p. 505, n°P393).
Artist:Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686 - 1755)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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