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Roe and Stork Suspended from a Tree Branch

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry

At its simplest, printmaking is a black-or-white process—either the ink from the plate goes onto the paper, or it doesn’t. In this pair of works, Jean-Baptiste Oudry reinterprets one of his red chalk drawings as a print by turning all of the red tones of his drawing into black etched lines. For instance, the darkest area below the neck of the roe is changed from field of deep red into an area of dense cross hatching. Executed in a meticulous red-chalk technique, this still-life was prepared as the template for a print executed by the artist himself.
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
(French, 1686 - 1755)
Title
Roe and Stork Suspended from a Tree Branch
Date
ca. 1721
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
10 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. Overall
Credit
Class of 1947 Gift Fund purchase
Accession No.
1973.140
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
Geography
France

Related

to 1883, in the collection of Baron Schwiter (France). 1929, Marius Paulme (Paris, France) sells at a Gallery George Petit sale, lot 614. 1973, Paul Drey Gallery (New York, NY) sells to Elvehjem Art Center [now called the Chazen Museum of Art] (Madison, WI)

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 50
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin/Elvehjem Art Center Bulletin/Annual Report 1973-1974. no. 6
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "French Graphics from the Elvehjem Art Center Collection." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1975. p. 20, cat. no. 29

  • In the Studio: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/1/2019–8/11/2019
  • Mezzotints: Prints of Darkness: Chazen Museum of Art, 8/22/2009–10/25/2009
  • Old Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/23/2005–10/9/2005
  • Hand of the Master, The: Drawings from the Elvehjem’s Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 5/11/1985–7/28/1985
  • French Graphics from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Art Center, 4/11/1975–5/25/1975

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