FS Oudry Metz Museum · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: FS Oudry Metz Museum
Description: 1912? J.B. Oudry, "Le Renard et la Cigogne.: Sepia-and-white photograph of FS painting. Musée de Metz. Metz: E. Prillot, Éditeur. $8 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.

Oudry is famous for his magnificent tapestry-like illustrations for the significant four-volume edition of the fables of 1755-59. Here he shows off his painter's gifts. The stance and expression of the fox, I would say, suggests the fox's appropriate dissatisfaction with his payback. The scenic background seems to me typical of the Oudry we know from those magnificent illustrations.
Date: 1912?
Source: $8 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.
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