Jean Baptiste Oudry

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.