Oudry’s Painted Menagerie
Vendredi, décembre 29th, 2006 Oudry’s Painted Menagerie
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755) was the principal animal painter during the first half of Louis XV’s reign. Commissioned to paint a portrait series of the animals in the king’s royal menagerie at Versailles, Oudry employed his prodigious talents and illustrative power to produce life-size paintings of a lion, an antelope, a male and […]


