A Wild Swan Attacked by a Dog

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c. 1740

Jean-Baptiste Oudry
French, 1686-1755

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Title: A Wild Swan Attacked by a Dog
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1730–1755
Medium: Brush and gray wash and black gouache, heightened with lead white (discolored), on blue laid paper (faded), laid down on cream board
Dimensions: 31.9 × 41.4 cm (12 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1966.351
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Marquis de Chennevières, Les Dessins de Maîtres Anciens Exposés à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts en 1879 (Paris, 1880), p. 99.
Edmond de Goncourt, I (1881), p. 130.
Jean Locquin, “Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry,” Archives de l’Art Français, VI (1912), no. 614.
Jean Vergnet-Ruiz, “Oudry,” Les Peintres Français du XVIIIe Siècle (Paris, 1930), no. 54.
H. N. Opperman, “Some Animal Drawings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry,” Master Drawings, IV (1966), pl. 25.
Art Quarterly, XXIX (1966), p. 294 (ill.).
Chronique des Arts, 151 (February 1967), p. 86 (ill.).
H. N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry (London, 1977), no. D628 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2D3.

Paris, “Tableaux et Dessins de l’Ecole Français,” 1860, cat. 284.
Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, “Dessins de Maîtres Anciens,” 1879, cat. 489.
Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, “Exposition Goncourt,” 1933, cat. 238.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, “Fem Sekler Fransk Konst,” August 15-November 9, 1958, cat. 238.
New York, Charles Slatkin Gallery, “Selected Drawings,” 1966, cat. 22.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 78-79, cat. 38 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 46-47, cat. 32 (ill.).
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso,” October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 4 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 18-19, cat. 4 (ill.).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, “Jean-Baptiste Oudry,” October 1, 1982-January 3, 1983, cat. 105.

Edmond and Jules de Goncourt [Lugt 1089]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 15-17, 1897, de Goncourt sale, lot 106, to the Marquise de la Ferronays [according to Paris 1982]. Marquise de la Ferronays (died 1946), to at least 1933 [Paris 1933]. Private collection, by 1958 [Stockholm 1958]. Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 3-4, 1958, Anonymous sale, lot 48. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.

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