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Painting in Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, inv.no. 1928. Oil on canvas, 3.10 x 4.56 m. History: Painted after nature at the Foire Saint-Germain in 1749; sold to the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1750 for 800 livres. Exhibited in the Salon of 1750, no. 38.
A drawing for this picture is in the British Museum. Oudry gave a plaster model of the rhinoceros to Prince Friedrich in 1750; it was still in Schwerin in Seidel's day, but I have not looked for it. Although supposedly painted from nature, the animal is very close to D?rer's famous woodcut of 1515. But then, all rhinoceroses look alike.
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Jean Baptiste Oudry
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