On trouve le corps mort de l'hote que l'on avait cache
1727
Artist, French, 1686 - 1755

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 32.7 x 28 cm (12 7/8 x 11 in.)
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Accession
1951.10.104
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Catalogue Raisonné
Opperman 1977, no. 191
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unidentified mark, ARD, on former mount (Lugt 172)
Associated Names
Bibliography
1967
Opperman, Hal N. "Oudry Illustrateur: le Roman Comique de Scarron" Gazette des Beaux Arts 6e per., 70 (1967): 347, no.22, fig.11.
1977
Opperman, Hal N. Jean-Baptiste Oudry. 2 vols. New York and London, 1977.
2009
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 112, fig. 1 (color).
Inscriptions
lower left in black chalk: JB Oudry / 1727
Wikidata ID
Q64581164