A Hare and a Leg of Lamb
1742
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755)
European Painting and Sculpture
A Hare and a Leg of Lamb, 1742. Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755). Oil on canvas; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1969.53 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Oudry, Jean-Baptiste
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted 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.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower left: J.B. Oudry / 1742
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1969.53
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1969, Chardin and the Still Life Tradition in France, Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals, 1750-1920, <em>Salon of 1742</em>, Louvre, Paris, France (August 25 -September 21, 1742)., <em>Le Cabinet de l'Amateur</em>, Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (February-April, 1956).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 216B French and German
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