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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.84
People
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French (Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais)
Title
Combat of Donkeys
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1750
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296340

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, and white gouache on lightly faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on off-white wove paper, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
30.3 x 51.8 cm (11 15/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, brown ink: JB. Oudry / 1750
  • watermark: none visible: drawing is laid down
  • inscription: signed and dated, lower left, brown ink: JB. Oudry / 1750

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Mayor; Prof. J. Isaacs; Christopher Powney, London; Fogg Art Museum, 1964, inv. no. 1964.84

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.84
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), cat. no. 103, pp. 86, 190, pl. 78, repr.
  • Hal N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Garland (New York, 1977), vol. II, cat. no. D648, p. 753
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), p. 491-n.5

Exhibition History

  • French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11/03/1972 - 12/17/1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/12/1973 - 03/11/1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, 04/04/1973 - 05/13/1973

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