Jean Baptiste Oudry
French, 1686-1755
Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born on March 17th 1686 in Paris, rue de la Ferronnerie. On February 4th of the same year his father Jacques Oudry was received at the Academy of Saint-Luc as a master painter. Throughout his life he worked on the fringes of official circles, combining his activity as a painter with that of an art merchant. Around 1705-1707, the young Jean-Baptiste began his apprenticeship with Nicolas de Largillière, with whom he stayed for five years.
In 1713 Oudry started his "book of reason" in which, up until 1718, he reproduced all his works in wash drawings. During this first period which lasted about seven years, Oudry produced works of great diversity, both in the genres the artist dealt with as well as by the influences that were affecting him. It has been estimated that he painted about 150 paintings during this period: mainly portraits, but also still lifes and some religious paintings and landscapes.
Of the hundred or so portraits Oudry made during this period, only about fifteen are identified today. A certain number of those lost portraits are probably still confused with works by Largillière.
First admitted to the Academy of Saint-Luc in 1708, he was then allowed to join the Royal Academy in 1717, and subsequently admitted as a historical painter in 1719. His reception piece l'Abondance offers a synthesis of all his talents deployed during this first period, since Oudry painted fruits, flowers, vegetables, landscapes and animals with equal ease.
That year was a turning point for Oudry who started asserting himself as an animal painter. In 1723 he met Louis Fagon, Intendant of Finances and the Marquis de Beringhen, the King's first squire, who became friends and patrons of the artist, enabling him to benefit from royal commissions and to be appointed as painter to the Royal Tapestry Manufactory of Beauvais in 1726.
The creation of tapestry cartoons became the heart of his work from 1728 onwards, even if at the same time Oudry developed an activity as an illustrator in parallel: first for Scarron's Roman Comique and then for La Fontaine's Fables.
A prolific artist, Oudry delivered numerous commissions in addition to his regular contributions to the Salons, in which he regularly took part until 1753. Victim of a stroke in 1754, he died the following year.(Biography provided by Stephane Renard Fine Art)
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