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La Chasse au loup, d'après un tableau d'Oudry
The Wolf Hunt, after a painting by Oudry
c. 1751
soft-paste biscuit porcelain
group
Dimensions (HxWxD): 6 1⁄2 x 12 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄2 in.
inscribed on base: CC
Acc. No.: 1993.63
Credit Line: Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund; gifts from W. Hawkins Ferry, Henry Ford II, Mr. and Mrs. James Whitcomb, John L. Booth, Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, Mrs. Russell Alger, Henry Goldman, Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, and Mr. and Mrs. Trent McMath by exchange
Photo credit: 2012 Detroit Institute of Arts
© Artist : public domain
© Artist : public domainProvenance
- 1986, June 10, Christie's, London, lot 258
- Newport, RI, [Armin B. Allen, Inc.]
- 1993, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund; gifts from W. Hawkins Ferry, Henry Ford II, Mr. and Mrs. James Whitcomb, John L. Booth, Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, Mrs. Russell Alger, Henry Goldman, Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, and Mr. and Mrs. Trent McMath by exchange
Related works
- The model is based on the painting Hyena Attacked by Two Mastiffs, painted by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) in 1739 and in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin collection since 1750. This painting is one of a series of hunt subjects painted by Oudry for the Royal Botanical Garden at the Trianon in Versailles between 1739 and 1745.
Other examples of this model: in the Palais du Luxembourg, Paris (a 19th-century biscuit); in the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris; in the Hôtel de Salm, Museum of the Legion of honor, Paris (a 19th-century biscuit).
See also The Boar Hunt, 1993.64.