Art, literature & historyJean-Baptiste Oudry
1686–1755
Selected artwork
The Dachshund Pehr with Dead Game and a Rifle
1740
Nationalmuseum
Other names (27)
Audray, Audrey, Audry, B. Oudry, C. Audrü, Houdrie of Paris, Houdry, jan baptiste oudry, Jan Baptist Oudry, J. Baptiste Oudry, J. Bapt. Oudry, J.B. Audry, J.B. Houdry, J. B. Oudri, J.-B. Oudry, J. B. Siméon Oudry, Jean Baptiste Audry, Jean Baptiste Oudry, jean bapt. oudry, jean b oudry, Johann Bapt. Oudry, M oudry, Oudrey, Oudri, Oudry, Oudry J.B., Oudry père
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist udʁi]; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Charles Oudry, was also a painter.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer, and his wife Nicole Papillon, relative of the engraver Jean-Baptiste-Michel Papillon.
His father was a director of the Académie de Saint-Luc art school, which Oudry joined. At first, Oudry concentrated on portraiture, and he became a pupil and perhaps a collaborator of Nicolas de Largillière from 1707 to 1712. He graduated at only 22 years of age, on 21 May 1708, at the same time as his two older brothers. The next year, he married Marie–Marguerite Froissé, the daughter of a miroitier (a mirror-maker) to whom he gave lessons in painting.
Oudry became an assistant professor at Académie de Saint-Luc in 1714, and professor on 1 July 1717.
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Influenced by
- Nicolas de Largillièreeditorial inference
Evidence
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jean-Baptiste Oudry. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- musée national du château de Fontainebleau — Fontainebleau19 recorded works
- musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon — Versailles18 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art14 recorded works
- Nationalmuseum12 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago11 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art11 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre7 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly4 recorded works
- musée Jean de la Fontaine — Château-Thierry4 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art3 recorded works
- Musée Carnavalet2 recorded works
- musée de la Chasse et de la Nature — Paris2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen2 recorded works
- musée national Magnin — Dijon2 recorded works
- Museo Nacional del Prado2 recorded works
- Palais-musée des Archevêques de Narbonne — Narbonne2 recorded works
- Staatliches Museum Schwerin2 recorded works
- A. G. Leventis Gallery1 recorded work
- Birmingham Museum of Art1 recorded work
- Château-musée — Dieppe1 recorded work
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- MUDO - musée de l'Oise — Beauvais1 recorded work
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon1 recorded work
- musée de Tessé — Le Mans1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)1 recorded work
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- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
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