JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS) An overturned basket of plants and flowers
signed or inscribed 'J.B. Oudry F.' (lower left)
black and white chalk on blue paper
13 x 16 ¾ in. (32.8 x 42.2 cm)
JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (PARIS 1686-1755 BEAUVAIS) An overturned basket of plants and flowers
signed or inscribed 'J.B. Oudry F.' (lower left)
black and white chalk on blue paper
13 x 16 ¾ in. (32.8 x 42.2 cm)
Collection Guichardot, Paris, 1894 (according to a label on the back of the frame). Vicomte Charles Ghislain Guillaume Vilain XIIII (1803-1878), Brussels; Sotheby’s, London, 11 June 1981, lot 61 (as attributed to Oudry). with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York. Gerald Bronfman (1911-1986) and Marjorie Bronfman, née Schechter (1917-2012), Montreal; by descent to Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington DC; by descent to the present owners.
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, From Boucher to Vuillard. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Marjorie Bronfman, 2000 (without catalogue).