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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1953.75.62
People
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French (Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais)
Title
Two Birds Taking Flight; verso: blank
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Avian Album
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/148412

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
1953.75.62
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edith A. Standen, European post-medieval tapestries and related hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1985), repr. as "A Duck", detail, fig. 56 on p. 494

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