Oudry's Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century France

by Marina Belozerskaya

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This beautiful volume--published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum to be held from May 1 to September 2, 2007--is the first to focus on the series of life-size portraits painted by the eighteenth-century artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry of the animals in Louis XV's royal menagerie at Versailles. A tiger, a lion, a leopard, and, most impressive of all, the famous rhinoceros known as Clara joined a group of other exotic animals in...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0892368896

ISBN13:9780892368891

Release Date:June 2007

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:151 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 10.8" x 11.0"

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