Le Garde-Manger / Jean-Baptiste Oudry
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- Accession Number
- 1971/2.5
- Title
- Le Garde-Manger
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1686-1755
- Medium and Support
- black chalk, heightened with white on gray-blue prepared laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1743
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Inscription
- Signed and dated in black chalk, on ledge at left: J B Oudry 1743
- Dimensions
- 34 cm x 25.5 cm (13 3/8 in. x 10 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- still life
- Physical Description
- This black chalk drawing on gray-blue prepared laid paper is vertically oriented. The piece is a still life of the contents of a pantry portrayed within a lightly indicated arched niche. A rabbit and a fowl hang upside-down from a string, dominating the composition. Below them are, from left to right, two vessels, a prepared fowl, long root vegetables, and a wicker basket.
- Subject Matter
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry began as a portrait painter, but gained great success as a painter of animals, hunt and still life subjects. In the traditional manner, he created preparatory drawings to design a painting composition. In this still life drawing, "The Pantry," he arranges the fresh game so that it hangs above the prepared meat and other meal ingredients. In still lifes such as this, the artist frequently creates an intricate compositionby carefully arranging the elements. Here, Oudry deftly plays on the notion of pairs: two suspended game, a pair of bottles to the left, the pair of long-stemmed vegetables to the right; the basket, fowl, and leg of game are used to knot the pairs together compositionally. J-B-S. Chardin, later in the 18th c. will become the consumate master of this type of still life.
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- descriptors
- genres
- mammals
- materials
- materials by function
- objects
- the natural world
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 553 x 709
- File Size
- 28 KB
- Record
- 1971/2.5
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"Le Garde-Manger; Jean-Baptiste Oudry." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1971-sl-2.5/1971_2.5.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.