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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers
    Jean Baptiste Oudry. Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers, 1724. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001374

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    Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers

    by Jean Baptiste Oudry

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed right: J.B. Oudry 1724 (on the base of the architecture)

    Provenance

    Louis Aubert, Lyon (died c. 1886); his sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Lyons, April 12–13, 1886, lot 43, as Singe dérobant des fruits. Paris art market, c. 1970 [according to Opperman 1977 and telephone conversation of Opperman with Martha Wolff, July 12, 2005]. Heim Gallery, London by 1977; sold to the Art Institute, 1977.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, J.–B. Oudry, 1686–1755, 1982–83, cat. 32 (cat. 17 in English catalogue); traveled to Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, and Kansas City, Missouri.

    Publications

    Hal N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, vol. 1 (New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1977), pp. 78-79, 528–29, no. P447, vol. 2, fig. 100. The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1977–78 (Chicago, 1978), pp. 5, 11, frontispiece (color ill.) The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), pp. 25, 69 (color ill.). “La Chronique des arts,” Gazette des Beaux–Arts 6th ser. 93 (1979), suppl. to no. 1323, p. 77. Amina Okada, “J. B. Oudry, 1686–1755: La Tentation de la nature morte,” Le Petit Journal des grandes expositions 122 (1982), n. p. “Une Ténébreuse Affaire,” Apollo 117 (January 1983), p. 2, fig. 1. James Yood, Feasting: A Celebration of Food in Art: Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago (New York: Universe, 1992), n. p., no. 9 (ill.). Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 109–112, 111 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755)
    Date
    1724
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    141.6 × 144.8 cm (55 3/4 × 57 in.); Framed: 172.8 × 175.3 × 12.7 cm (68 × 69 × 5 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    18th Century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Major Acquisitions Centennial Fund
    Accession no.
    1977.486

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