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Jean-Baptiste Oudry
18th-century French Rococo painter
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃batistudʁi]; 17 March – 30 April ) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer.
He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Charles Oudry, was also a painter.
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer, and his wife Nicole Papillon,[1] relative of the engraver Jean-Baptiste-Michel Papillon.
Jean-baptiste oudry biography
His father was a director of the Académie de Saint-Luc art school, which Oudry joined. At first, Oudry concentrated on portraiture, and he became a pupil and perhaps a collaborator of Nicolas de Largillière from to He graduated at only 22 years of age, on 21 May , at the same time as his two older brothers.
The next year, he married Marie–Marguerite Froissé,[2] the daughter of a miroitier (a mirror