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Designs for Plates Taken from Oudry's Illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables

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Designs for Plates Taken from Oudry's Illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables

Jean-Baptiste Oudry | Anonymous, 18th century

after 1755

Medium

Etching

Tags

Animals Birds Men

Dimensions

sheet: 11 7/16 x 6 9/16 in. (29 x 16.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-Baptiste Oudry

1686–1755 • France

Comment on works: Fish; Game; Dogs; Hunt scenes

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