Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Jean -Baptiste Oudry ( born March 17, 1686, Paris, † April 3, 1755 in Beauvais ) was a French painter.

Life

Oudry was formed under his father, a painter and art dealer, and then worked for five years in the studio of the portraitist Largillière. In 1719 he became a member of the Academy of Painting at Paris, and in 1743 professor at the Academy. In 1724 he became court painter to the French King Louis XV.

Initially, a portrait painter, he used since about 1715 with fondness animal painting and still life; most of his in broad, decorative style painted, some of them very extensive animal and hunting scenes came in the royal palaces and in the Museum at Paris. As one of the principal applies the Marly in the castle, which is surrounded with twelve nobles of his kingdom on horseback and by many hunting dogs the king. The largest collection of drawings and paintings by his hand is located in Schwerin. It is due to the collecting activities of the Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg -Schwerin and today in the Schwerin State Museum.

Jean -Baptiste Oudry was 1725 artistic director of the Tapisseriemanufaktur of Beauvais. From 1733 he was appointed director of the Gobelins tapestry factory in Paris.

Oudry's works in Schwerin

In Germany, Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg -Schwerin became one of the greatest lovers and collectors of works Oudry. From 1732 got Oudry orders of Christian Ludwig II, the state museum now has the largest German, if not the world 's largest collection of his paintings. This consists of 34 paintings and 43 drawings, including the liberation of Peter, still lifes, flowers, kitchen and fruit pieces, animal fights, tame and wild animals (such as the rhinoceros to Oudry's time issued in Europe Clara and an Atlas lion, representatives of a now-extinct subspecies the lion ). One part is exhibited in the permanent collection of the State Museum Schwerin and will in future be seen in Ludwig pleasure palace.

Christian Ludwig II acquired in 1750 thirteen colossal animal paintings, mainly animals from the royal zoo at Versailles show in a fantasy environment for imaging of the royal menagerie. Oudry had made for these paintings drawings and color studies at the Royal Zoo, and to partially perform the animals in the studio as possible naturalistic life-size can. Some of these paintings, however, were rolled up in the middle of the 19th century for some 150 years, and partly stored folded in a magazine. In 2003, three of these giant paintings to Los Angeles, California, placed and restored in a joint project of the State Museum Schwerin and the Getty Conservation Center. The work took four years. In 2007, they were combined with other animal paintings by Oudry 's Painted under the title menagerie with great success at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, is shown. 300,000 visitors saw the exhibition. In 2008, the painting returned to Schwerin, where they were presented in an exhibition in the spring and summer of 2008, which was on view from September 2008 to January 2009 at the Kunsthalle Tübingen.

Selections

  • Aqueduct of Arcueil, 1745, chalk drawing, 42 × 47 cm. Paris, Ecole des Beaux -Arts.
  • Portrait of a hunter, 1743, canvas, 225 × 120 cm. Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
  • Bizarrely head of a slain by the King Stag, 1741, canvas, 115 × 70 cm. Fontainebleau (Seine- et- Marne), Château.
  • The hunted wild boar, 1730, canvas, 149 × 181 cm. Schwerin, State Museum and gallery.
  • The tenant farm, 1750, canvas, 130 × 212 cm. Paris, Musée National du Louvre.
  • The five senses ( five canvas painting ), 1749, canvas, 150 × 80 cm. Beauvais manufactory.
  • The Hunts of Louis XV. ( nine paintings ), 1733-44, canvas. Fontainebleau (Seine- et- Marne), Château.
  • The wind bitches of the king, 1728, screen, 130 × 160 cm. Fontainebleau (Seine- et- Marne), Château.
  • End wolf hunting, 1725, canvas, 175 × 196 cm. Chantilly (Oise ), Musee Conde.
  • Harvest and vintage ( Tondo ), 1740, canvas, diameter 78 cm. Versailles, Grand Trianon.
  • Salon Oudry, castle Condé ( Aisne ).
  • Seven hunting pieces, Weißensteinflügel, Kassel.
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