Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Public domain

(1686–1755) fransk målare

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (France, 1686–1755) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Jean-Baptiste Oudry belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.

Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris and died in Beauvais. Jean-Baptiste Oudry trained at Académie de Saint-Luc. Jean-Baptiste Oudry studied under Nicolas de Largillière. Jean-Baptiste Oudry became a member of Académie de Saint-Luc. The students included Henri-Horace Roland Delaporte.

One of the best-known works is ‘Still Life with Dead Game and Peaches in a Landscape’. The works belong mainly to the genre still life. The catalogue has 101 works by Jean-Baptiste Oudry with free images. The dated works span the years 1704–1755. Works by Jean-Baptiste Oudry are held by several collections, among them Nationalmuseum, drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Wallace Collection, and National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Rococo’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Peter Angelis, Jean-Marc Nattier, Charles Cressent, Cosmas Damian Asam, and Agostino Cornacchini.