Oudry Jean Baptiste Morton Mary Bailey (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. xv, 151 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Issued in connection with an exhibition organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in conjunction with the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany, on view at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, May 1 to September 2, 2007, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 7, 2007 to January 6, 2008. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Back cover slightly creased. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This beautiful volume--published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum to be held from May 1 to September 2, 2007--is the first to focus on the series of life-size portraits painted by the eighteenth-century artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry of the animals in Louis XV's royal menagerie at Versailles. A tiger, a lion, a leopard, and, most impressive of all, the famous rhinoceros known as Clara joined a group of other exotic animals in Oudry's 'painted menagerie,' which was purchased in 1750 by his German patron, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The book's insightful essays situate this suite of paintings within the context of Oudry's career; discuss Oudry's remarkable drawings of animals; and present a fascinating history of menageries and of the phenomenon known as 'Claramania'. When the real rhinoceros, Clara, traveled through Europe and caused a public sensation." - Publisher. CONTENTS: "A long working life, considerable research and much thought": An Introduction to the Art and Career of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), by Colin B. Bailey; Pictorial Relations: New Evidence on Jean-Baptiste Oudry and the Court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, by Christoph Frank; Menageries as Princely Necessities and Mirrors of Their Times, by Marina Belozerskaya; Technique and Tradition in Oudry's Animal Drawings, by Christine Giviskos; "Animal Lovers Are Informed", by Charissa Bremer-David; Notes on the Restoration of Jean-Baptiste Oudry's Rhinoceros and Lion, by Mark Leonard; Oudry's Painted Menagerie, by Mary Morton. Size: 4to.