Beschreibung:

Details
A landscape with a shepherd driving animals to pasture, a castle beyond
JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS)
signed and dated 'J.B Oudry 1727' (lower right)
25 3/16 x 31 ½ in. (64 x 80 cm.)
Oudry
Provenance
Commissioned by the Marquis Henri Camille de Beringhen, Premier Écuyer de la Petite Écurie du Roi (1693-1770); his sale, Remy, Paris, 2 July 1770, lot 21.
M. Horsin-Deon; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26-27 March 1868, lot 40.
M. Lemaître, Laon; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 March 1874, lot 69.
Docteur Mallez; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30 May 1885, lot 28.
P. Ledoux; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 March 1918, lot 36.
George Hein, Paris, 1959,
Musée Algiers, by 1959 (inv. no. 3730),
with Maurice Segoura, Paris, where acquired by a private collector, by whom sold,
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1990, lot 90,
where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. Locquin, 'Beaux objets sur le marché', L'Oeil, no. 53, 1959, p. 78, illustrated.
J. Locquin, 'Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean Baptiste Oudry - peintre du Roi ( 1686-1755 )', Archives de l'Art, VI, Paris, 1968, p. 83, no. 437.
H.N. Opperman, Jean Baptiste Oudry, I, 1977, p. 579, no. P587, fig. 167.
H.N. Opperman, J.B. Oudry, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1982-1983, pp. 78 and 110, under no. 48, fig. 48b.
H.N. Opperman, J.B Oudry, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, 1983, pp. 128 and 130, under nos. 27 and 28.
G. Szabo, 17th and 18th Century French Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1980, under no. 27.
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1739.
Paris, Salon, 1743, no. 43.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.