Dog Guarding Dead Game  1753

Oudry made his reputation painting hunting scenes and royal animals for Louis XV and various wealthy Parisian patrons. The verisimilitude with which he renders the creatures epitomizes his precise painterly style; he specifically identifies the game as a fox, a wood pigeon, a woodpecker, a curlew, and a jay. [br] Although he trained with the portraitist Nicolas de Largill...