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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    A Wild Swan Attacked by a Dog
    Jean Baptiste Oudry. A Wild Swan Attacked by a Dog, c. 1740. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002430

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    A Wild Swan Attacked by a Dog

    by Jean Baptiste Oudry

    Provenance

    Edmond and Jules de Goncourt [Lugt 1089]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 15-17, 1897, de Goncourt sale, lot 106, to the Marquise de la Ferronays [according to Paris 1982]. Marquise de la Ferronays (died 1946), to at least 1933 [Paris 1933]. Private collection, by 1958 [Stockholm 1958]. Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 3-4, 1958, Anonymous sale, lot 48. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, "Tableaux et Dessins de l'Ecole Français," 1860, cat. 284. Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, "Dessins de Maîtres Anciens," 1879, cat. 489. Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, "Exposition Goncourt," 1933, cat. 238. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, "Fem Sekler Fransk Konst," August 15-November 9, 1958, cat. 238. New York, Charles Slatkin Gallery, "Selected Drawings," 1966, cat. 22. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 78-79, cat. 38 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 46-47, cat. 32 (ill.). Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 4 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 18-19, cat. 4 (ill.). Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Jean-Baptiste Oudry," October 1, 1982-January 3, 1983, cat. 105.

    Publications

    Marquis de Chennevières, Les Dessins de Maîtres Anciens Exposés à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts en 1879 (Paris, 1880), p. 99. Edmond de Goncourt, I (1881), p. 130. Jean Locquin, "Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry," Archives de l'Art Français, VI (1912), no. 614. Jean Vergnet-Ruiz, "Oudry," Les Peintres Français du XVIIIe Siècle (Paris, 1930), no. 54. H. N. Opperman, "Some Animal Drawings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry," Master Drawings, IV (1966), pl. 25. Art Quarterly, XXIX (1966), p. 294 (ill.). Chronique des Arts, 151 (February 1967), p. 86 (ill.). H. N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry (London, 1977), no. D628 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2D3.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean-Baptiste Oudry / French, 1686-1755
    Date
    c. 1740
    Medium
    Brush and gray wash and black gouache, heightened with lead white (discolored), on blue laid paper (faded), laid down on cream board
    Dimensions
    31.9 × 41.4 cm (12 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink or chalk wash
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
    Accession no.
    1966.351

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