1945.16: Still Life with Woodcock and Quail

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1945.16

People

Jacques-Charles Oudry, French (1722 or 1723 - 1778)
Previously Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French (Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais)

Title

Still Life with Woodcock and Quail

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1769

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229135

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

65.7 x 49.2 cm (25 7/8 x 19 3/8 in.)
framed: 77.2 x 60.6 cm (30 3/8 x 23 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: J. C. Oudry

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Paul Dutasta. [Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York ? - 1939)sold] ; to [Knoedler Gallery, New York (1939-April 1945)] sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1945.

Notes:
Knoedler gallery obtained a half-share of the painting from Seligmann in 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund

Accession Year

1945

Object Number

1945.16

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 36
• Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), no. 38
• James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), p. 87, cat. 44, ill.
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

Exhibition History

• University Collections, [Unknown venue, Malmo, Sweden], Malmo, 06/30/1956 - 07/15/1956; Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, 08/04/1956 - 09/08/1956; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 09/18/1956 - 10/14/1956; Senate House, London, 10/22/1956 - 10/27/1956; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 11/05/1956 - 11/17/1956; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels, 12/08/1956 - 12/30/1956; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Liege, 01/12/1957 - 02/10/1957
• Unidentified Exhibition, Wilcox House, 1958, Wilcox House, York, 08/01/1958 - 08/31/1958
• Heritage de France: French Painting, 1610-1760, Musée de la Province de Quebec; National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Toronto; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
• Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
• Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974
• Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985
• Re-View: S425A (Small Niche) The Art of Deceit: Looking at French Trompe L'Oeil, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/2010 - 01/08/2011
• 32Q: 2410 South Arcade, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/06/2015 - 06/15/2016

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