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Reference Base Jean Baptiste Oudry


Opperman, H.N., 1977. Jean Baptiste Oudry. New York and London, Graland Publishing, vol. 1

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Subject: Culture - Art
Species: All Rhino Species


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London, British Museum, inv. no. 1918-6-15-7. Black and white chalk on blue paper. 276 x 444 mm. Inscribed below left, in ink: Oudry fecit.
History: William Mayor, London (Lugt 2799, below right, recto); Sir Edward J. Poynter, Bart. (Lugt 874, below right, recto); his sale, London, Sotheby, 24-25 April 1918, no. 223 (?32 to Colnaghi); Otto Beit, who gave it to the museum in 1918.
See: A brief chronological description, 1871 ed., no. 320, and 1875 ed., no. 561.
A finished study of the animal, without the landscape, for the painting executed in 1749 and shown in the Salon of 1750.

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