Ducks Resting in Sunshine  1753

This picture and Dog Guarding Dead Game (71.89) were exhibited in the Salon of 1753, the last in which Oudry participated. The two, while not conceived as pendants, were hung together by the collector Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully. Oudry made his reputation painting Louis XV's hunts and royal animals. [br] Celebrated as a painter of still lifes and particularly of anim...