Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1753 - Ducks Resting in Sunshine - fine art print

Original artwork information from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This picture and Dog Guarding Dead Game (71.89) were exhibited in the Salon of 1753, the last in which Oudry participated. The two, while not conceived as pendants, were hung together by the collector Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully. Oudry made his reputation painting Louis XV's hunts and royal animals.

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The artwork with the title "Ducks Resting in Sunshine" as art copy

Ducks Resting in Sunshine is a masterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. The painting measures the size: 25 1/2 x 31 3/4 in (64,8 x 80,6 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. This piece of art forms part of the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 1871 (public domain license). In addition to that, the work of art has the creditline: Purchase, 1871. Besides, the alignment is in landscape format with a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. The painter, designer, etcher Jean-Baptiste Oudry was an artist, whose artistic style can be attributed primarily to Baroque. The artist was born in 1686 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and died at the age of 69 in 1755.

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