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Old Master Drawings

Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean‑Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755), Studies of a Bear Cub – reclining head and right fore‑paw, c. 1730
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean‑Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755), Studies of a Bear Cub – reclining head and right fore‑paw, c. 1730
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean‑Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755), Studies of a Bear Cub – reclining head and right fore‑paw, c. 1730
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean‑Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755), Studies of a Bear Cub – reclining head and right fore‑paw, c. 1730
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean‑Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755), Studies of a Bear Cub – reclining head and right fore‑paw, c. 1730

Jean‑Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755)

Studies of a Bear Cub – reclining head and right fore‑paw, c. 1730
Black chalk (lightly stumped) on blue paper now faded to cream
10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in
26 x 21 cm

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Provenance

formerly collection Paul Mathias Polakovits (his stamp lower right)
Private collection, France

The lively naturalism, the choice of black chalk on blue support and the minute observation of texture place the drawing squarely within Oudry’s early animal studies. A compelling analogue is...
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The lively naturalism, the choice of black chalk on blue support and the minute observation of texture place the drawing squarely within Oudry’s early animal studies. A compelling analogue is View of a Bear from behind (black & white chalk, 27.3 × 42.5 cm; William Doyle, New York, 19 May 2004, lot 6026), where the same swirling hachures and soft stumping describe the animal’s coat.

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