Harvard Art Museums > 1953.75: Avian Album Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Avian Album (Jean-Baptiste Oudry) , 1953.75,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 07, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297118. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1953.75 People Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French (Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais) Title Avian Album Other Titles Alternate Title: Album of 96 drawings for tapestries Classification Drawings Work Type album Date 18th century Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297118 Physical Descriptions Medium Parchment covered album with 96 bird studies executed in black ink and watercolor on 83 leaves of off-white antique laid paper (43 x 34.5 cm.). Some drawings have been pasted into the album, others were drawn directly on the album leaves. Dimensions 44 x 35 x 5 cm (17 5/16 x 13 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Fogg Art Museum, 1953, inv. no. 1953.75 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift Accession Year 1953 Object Number 1953.75 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History An Album of Watercolors by Oudry, Annual Report (Fogg Art Museum) (1954), no. 1953/54 (1954), 10-11 Some Animal Drawings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Master Drawings (1966), vol. 4, no. 4 (Winter 1966), 390, 402-403 (plates 16-19) Hal N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Garland (New York, 1977), vol. I, pp. 145-46, 146 n. 1, 147-52, 262, 332, 355, 436, 440, 455, 465, 475, 497, vol. II, pp. 605, 607, 711, 766, 784-85, 798-817, 821 Edith A. Standen, European post-medieval tapestries and related hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1985), pp. 488-495 L’animal miroir de l’homme: petit bestiaire du XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat., Musée Cognacq-Jay (Paris, 1996), p. 44 Pieter Boel, 1622-1674. Peintre des animaux de Louis XIV. Le fonds des études des Gobelins, exh. cat. (Paris, 2001), pp. 82, 88 (fig. 14), 89, 95, 111, 123, 127 Oudry’s Painted Menagerie. Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, 2008), p.140 Deportes catalogue raisonné (Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, 2010), II, 22 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Sarah Anne Carter, Tangible Things: Making History through Objects, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, 2015), pp. 153, 156-158, 1953.75.60 and 1953.75.81 repr. as figs. 126 and 127 Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 137-138 Related Works 1953.75.37 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Perched Parrot and Standing Heron; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.38 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Squawking Bird with Talons Extended to the Right; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.39 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Heron with Right Leg Raised; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.40 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Hunched Bird with Ruffled Feathers; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.9 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Bird Looking Backwards; verso: Tortoise and Hare in a Landscape Drawings 1953.75.11 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Bird; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.28 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Four Swallows, One Perched and Three in Flight; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.29 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Bustard; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.32 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Heron and Two Perched Birds; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.34 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Perched Bird Looking over its Shoulder; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.8 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Bird Confronting an Owl before a Cave Drawings 1953.75.10 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Swan Transporting a Fish in a Landsape Drawings 1953.75.14 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Birds, One Perched and One in Flight; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.15 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Parrots Perched on a Branch; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.26 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Hunched Bird Looking Upward; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.27 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Hunched Heron and Three Perched Parrots; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.33 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Duck and Heron with a Fish; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.41 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Ducks in the Water, One Taking Flight; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.36 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Perched Birds and a Duck; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.18 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Small Bird in Flight above Two Pheasants; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.19 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Perched Birds; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.20 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Herons; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.21 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Pheasant; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.24 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Five Birds, One Perched, Four in Flight; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.25 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Hunched Pheasants; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.13 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Peacocks; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.16 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Heron and Two Small Birds, One Perched and One in Flight; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.17 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Peacock and Small Perched Bird; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.22 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Pheasants Perched on a Branch; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.23 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Perched and Squawking Pheasants; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.30 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Lady of Numidia; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.31 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Striding Bird; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.35 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Heron and Four Perched Birds; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.67 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Crane Standing on One Leg Looking Upward Drawings 1953.75.72 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Standing Bird with Wings Outspread Drawings 1953.75.73 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Bird Looking Right; verso: Two Wading Ducks Flapping Their Wings and Looking Upward Drawings 1953.75.78 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Peacock; verso: Heron on One Leg with Wings Outspread Drawings 1953.75.79 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Duck Looking to the Left; verso: Two Dead Wild Ducks Drawings 1953.75.80 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Duck; verso: Eagle Drawings 1953.75.81 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Bird Walking to the Left; verso: Two Flying Pigeons Drawings 1953.75.82 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Flamingo; verso: Two Peacocks Drawings 1953.75.83 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Monkey Riding a Dolphin; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.54 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Seated Duck; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.58 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Three Birds, Two Hunched Together and One Looking Back to the Left; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.59 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Duck Looking to the Left; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.60 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Quizzical Bird; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.61 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Bird Looking Upward and Behind; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.66 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Spoonbill; verso: Two Birds in Shallow Water Drawings 1953.75.70 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Merganser Looking Backward; verso: Soaring Bird Drawings 1953.75.71 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Merganser; verso: Heron Drawings 1953.75.74 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Toucan Resting on a Branch; verso: Two Falcons Drawings 1953.75.75 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Heron Tied to a Branch Drawings 1953.75.2 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Muscovy Duck Drawings 1953.75.3 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Swallows in Flight Drawings 1953.75.4 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Sparrows in Flight Drawings 1953.75.5 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Perched Magpie, Perched Woodpecker, and a Bird in Flight Drawings 1953.75.6 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Birds in Flight Drawings 1953.75.7 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Perched Birds and One in Flight Drawings 1953.75.12 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Pheasants in Flight, a Standing Heron and Two Small Birds; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.42 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Duck with Wings Extended; verso: Tufted Crane Drawings 1953.75.44 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Duck with Wings Extended, Seen from Behind; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.45 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Pheasants; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.46 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Squirrel Eating Cherries and Bird with Wings Extended; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.47 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Duck and Bird, both with Wings Extended ; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.50 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Duck and Bird in Flight; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.51 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Rabbits; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.62 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Birds Taking Flight; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.63 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Birds in Flight; verso: Swan Drawings 1953.75.64 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Dead Red Partridge Drawings 1953.75.65 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Dog and Squirrel; verso: Crane Drawings 1953.75.68 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Crane Looking to the Left; verso: Crane Stading on One Leg Looking to the Right Drawings 1953.75.69 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Egyptian Duck; verso: Partridge Drawings 1953.75.76 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Four Birds; verso: Two Wild Ducks Drawings 1953.75.77 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Standing Bird; verso: Flying Bird of Prey Drawings 1953.75.48 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Rooster and Hen; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.49 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Guinea-fowl (?); verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.52 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Two Squawking Ducks in the Water; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.56 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Hunching Duck in Profile to the Left; verso: blank Drawings 1953.75.1 Jean-Baptiste Oudry Folio recto: Blank; verso: Heron Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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