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A Hare and a Leg of Lamb
About the Artwork
Oudry used a starkly simple composition and sterile background to emphasize his virtuosity in depicting textures, a highly desirable skill of still-life painters at this time. These artists were aiming for the highest level of accuracy—an effect of the Enlightenment, the contemporary intellectual movement that emphasized scientific reasoning in all pursuits. These paintings were generally displayed in hunting lodges or dining rooms, as a glorification of the hunt and the bounty it brings.
Inscriptions
signed lower left: J.B. Oudry / 1742
Provenance
until at least 1956: M. de Vaize and the de Vaize Family December 15—16, 1958: (Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France, December 15—16, 1958, no. 64) December 4, 1963: (Sale: Palais Galliera, Paris, France, December 4, 1963, no. 200, to Cailleux) Private Collection, New York, NY -1969: [Eugene V. Thaw (1927-2018), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art]. 1969-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). Chardin and the Still Life Tradition in France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 6-August 12, 1979). Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals, 1750-1920. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (March 26-August 17, 2006).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755)
- Date
- 1742
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 118 x 92.5 x 6 cm (46 7/16 x 36 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 98.2 x 73.5 cm (38 11/16 x 28 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1969.53
More by Jean Baptiste Oudry in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009145
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