Jean-Baptiste Oudry

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry, self-portrait

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (born March 17, 1686 in Paris , † April 30, 1755 in Beauvais ) was a French painter.

Life

Jean-Baptiste Oudry initially received his training from his father, who worked as a painter and painting dealer. He then studied for five years in the portrait painter Largillière's studio . In 1719 he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, in 1724 court painter to the French King Louis XV. and in 1725 Artistic Director of Tapisseriemanufaktur of Beauvais . From 1733 he was director of the tapestry manufacture in Paris . In 1743 he was appointed professor at the Académie Royale.

At first he worked as a portrait painter, but from around 1715 onwards he mainly devoted himself to still life and animal painting . His decorative works came to several royal castles. His well-known works include the depiction of King Louis XV. with a hunting party on horseback and surrounded by many hunting dogs.

Oudry's works in Schwerin and Ludwigslust

In Germany, Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin became one of the greatest lovers and collectors of Oudry's works. From 1732 Oudry received orders from Christian Ludwig II. The State Museum Schwerin / Ludwigslust / Güstrow now has the world's largest collection of his pictures. This consists of 34 paintings and 43 drawings, including The Liberation of Peter as well as still lifes, flowers, pieces of kitchen and fruit, animal fights, tame and wild animals, such as the tame rhinoceros "Clara" , which he painted in 1749, which was exhibited in Europe during Oudry's time and exhibited in the Paris Salon, or an Atlas lion (representative of a subspecies of the lion that is now extinct). Part of it was initially shown in the permanent exhibition of the State Museum in Schwerin and has been on display in the restored east wing of Ludwigslust Palace since spring 2016 . The large-format oil painting "Rhinozeros" (306 × 453 cm) will also be on view in Ludwigslust Castle after the restoration of the west wing has been completed.

Christian Ludwig II had acquired thirteen colossal animal paintings, which mainly show animals from the royal zoo in Versailles in a fantasy setting, to illustrate the princely menagerie in 1750. Oudry had made drawings and color studies in the royal zoo for these paintings in order to be able to make the animals in the studio as naturalistic as possible and sometimes in life size. However, some of these paintings were rolled up for a good 150 years in the middle of the 19th century and partially folded and stored in a magazine. In 2003, three of these giant paintings were brought to Los Angeles , California, and restored in a joint project between the State Museum Schwerin and the Getty Conservation Center . The work lasted four years. In 2007 they were shown with great success at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston , Texas, along with other animal paintings by the painter under the title Oudry's Painted Menagerie . 300,000 visitors saw the exhibitions. In 2008 the paintings returned to Schwerin and were presented there in the spring and summer of 2008 in an exhibition that was on view from September 2008 to January 2009 in the Kunsthalle Tübingen .

Factory selection

The rhinoceros Clara in Paris 1749
Scene with birds and dogs , 1742
Scene with birds and dogs , 1742
  • Arcueil Aqueduct , 1745, chalk drawing, 42 × 47 cm. Paris, École des Beaux-Arts.
  • Portrait of a hunter , 1743, canvas, 225 × 120 cm. Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
  • Bizarre head of a stag killed by the king , 1741, canvas, 115 × 70 cm. Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), Château.
  • The killed wild boar , 1730, canvas, 149 × 181 cm. Schwerin, State Museum, Picture Gallery.
  • The lease yard , 1750, canvas, 130 × 212 cm. Paris, Musee National du Louvre.
  • The five senses (five canvas paintings), 1749, canvas, each 150 × 80 cm. Beauvais, Manufactory.
  • The hunts of Louis XV. (nine paintings), 1733–44, canvas. Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), Château.
  • The King's Greyhounds, 1728, canvas, 130 × 160 cm. Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), Château.
  • End of the Wolf Hunt, 1725, canvas, 175 × 196 cm. Chantilly (Oise), Musée Condé.
  • Harvest and Grape Harvest (Tondo), 1740, canvas, diameter 78 cm. Versailles, Grand Trianon.
  • Oudry Salon, Condé Castle (Aisne).
  • seven hunting pieces, Weißenstein wing , Kassel.
  • two scenes with birds and dogs, 1742, Palais Rohan (Strasbourg)
  • Still life with violin, undated, oil on canvas, 87 × 102 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Trivia

In 2017, Jean-Baptiste Oudry was given a 70 cents stamp as part of the series “ Treasures from German museums ”, which shows the image “ Pepper eater , young crane and hooded crane”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwigsluster Tageblatt of October 1, 2015 - From the editors of the Ludwigsluster Tageblatt ( online ).
  2. ↑ Getty press release , February 14, 2007
  3. ↑ Britta Kaiser-Schuster: Roßkur for the rhinoceros. Jean-Baptiste Oudry's "Rhinoceros Clara" from Schwerin at Getty in Los Angeles - a spectacular restoration initiative. In: Arsprototo . The magazine of the Kulturstiftung der Länder. Berlin 1/2005. ISSN  1860-3327
  4. ^ Report by the Getty Museum on the restoration work
  5. ↑ May 1 - September 2, 2007: Getty Museum Los Angeles; October 7, 2007 - January 6, 2008: Museum of fine Arts, Houston
  6. ↑ Focus Online , April 8, 2008; NZZ Online , June 21, 2008
  7. ^ Kunsthalle Tübingen The exhibitions in 2008

literature

  • Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe (ed.): Oudrys painted menagerie. Portraits of exotic animals in 18th century Europe , Deutscher Kunstverlag 2008

His etched leaves are described in the following work:

  • Alexandre P. Robert-Dumesnil: Le Peintre-Graveur français, ou catalog raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française . Paris: Warée 1835-1871.

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personal data
SURNAME Oudry, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1755
Place of death Beauvais