Oudry, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1755) (23 works)

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Oudry, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1755), French artist, master of monumental and decorative still life.
Born in Paris on March 17, 1686 in the family of the artist and art dealer Jacques Oudry. In 1705-1710 he studied with the portrait painter N. de Largilliere, simultaneously attending drawing classes at the Parisian Academies of St. Luke and the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

Initially he painted mainly portraits, turning to other genres. At the end of the 1710s, his main vocation was determined - the art of emphatically decorative, still life and animal painting, where he seemed to challenge the leading French master of this kind of paintings, F. Deporte. He painted still lifes with fruits and flowers, as well as hunting scenes, which often formed cycles of large panels. From earlier, more densely painted, finely detailed works, he moved on to rhythmically free, bravura compositions in the spirit of Rococo, sometimes achieving true drama. His paintings enjoyed great success among European monarchs and nobles; a number of his things were decorated in the 18th century. and Russian palaces.

Actively worked as an illustrator. Numerous tapestries were created from his paintings, including the 9-part series of the Hunt of Louis XV (1733-1745). He was an artist (from 1726) and director (from 1734) of the tapestries manufactory in Beauvais, as well as a senior inspector of the tapestry manufactory in Paris (from 1736).
Oudry died in Beauvais on April 30, 1755.