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The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog (La Fontaine, Fables, XII, 13)
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The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog (La Fontaine, Fables, XII, 13)

Medium

Brush and black ink and gray wash, heightened with white on blue paper. Framing lines in brush and black ink and blue wash.

Dimensions

12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (30.8 x 25.7 cm.)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-Baptiste Oudry

1686–1755France

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