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Oudry, Jean-Baptiste
(b Paris, 17 March 1686; d Beauvais, 30 April 1755). French painter. He was the principal animal painter and one of the foremost decorative painters during the first half of Louis XV’s reign. After initial training as a portrait painter, he concentrated on still-lifes; by the 1720s he had also begun to establish himself as a specialist in hunting scenes, game-pieces and portraits of animals. He ran an active workshop, often keeping his best originals for years and selling copies and (more or less autograph) variants. In the 1730s he was most active as a tapestry designer, making numerous designs for the royal tapestry works of Beauvais and the Gobelins, and he continued to produce his brilliantly painted hunts, still-lifes and studies of animals and birds to the end of his career.
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- Oudry, Jean-Baptiste
- France, §XII, 4: Patronage: 18th century and Revolutionary period
- Gobelins, §2: Tapestry
- Paris, §III, 3: Art life and organization, 1715–88
- Sporting scenes, §3: Baroque
- Tapestry, §II, 4: 1701–1800
- collaboration
- patrons and collectors
- Azincourt, Barthélémy-Augustin Blondel d'
- Brukenthal, Samuel, Baron von
- Caffiéri, Philippe (ii) (1714-74)
- Camondo, Moïse de, Comte
- Creutz, Gustav Filip
- La Live de Jully, Ange-Laurent de
- Lancret, Nicolas
- Louis XV, King of France (reg 1715-74)
- Seymour-Conway, Richard, 4th Marquess of Hertford
- Tessin, Carl Gustav, Count
- Trudaine de Montigny, Jean-Charles-Philibert
- Verrue, Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de
- pupils
- reproductions in tapestry
- reproductive prints by others
- tapestries
- teachers
- works
- Animal subjects, §3: The 18th century
- Beauvais, §2: Centre of tapestry production
- Fables, §2: Printed
- Frame, §VII, 5: Scandinavia: Rococo
- France, §III, 4(i): Painting & graphic arts, c 1715–c 1814: Rise of the Rococo
- France, §V, 4: Interior decoration, 1723–1815
- France, §XI, 1(iv): Tapestry, 1658–1800
- Hôtel particulier, §2: Interior decoration
- Illusionism, §2(ii): Small-scale works, c 1450–c 1800
- Moltke, Adam Gottlob
- Still-life, §3: 18th century and after
- writings
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