Le Renard vaincu (The Vanquished Fox); Fox Hunt
Jean Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 - 1755
1725
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (37.5 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 15 5/8 × 12 5/8 in. (39.7 × 32.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund, the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, the Julia L. Whittier Fund, and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
PR.997.3.3
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Peint pour le Roy par J. B. Oudry, et gravee par lui-meme.; lower right: A Paris chez Huquier.; lower center: Tel fut l'effroi des Poulaillers / Qui fait icy triste figure: / On croiroit voir d'apres nature / Cartouche pris par les archers. / L.C.; upper right: 3 Watermark: Heart and G (?)
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
Robert-Dumesnil 3; Hal N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, New York, 1977, no. E53.
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