The Fox and the Turkey Hens
Medium
brush and black ink and gray wash heightened with white gouache, blue ink in margin; framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
image: 24 × 18.8 cm · sheet: 31 × 26 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1977.93
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
This drawing depicts a fable about turkeys whose anxieties about falling victim to a fox ultimately make them susceptible to the predator. It was one of 276 designs produced by Jean-Baptiste Oudry related to humorous but educational stories compiled by French poet Jean de La Fontaine in the later 1600s. Published in four luxurious volumes between 1755 and 1759, The Fables of La Fontaine withOudry’s illustrations was one of the most ambitious publishing projects of the artist’s time. The books we...