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The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog (La Fontaine, Fables, XII, 13)
1733
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Brush and black ink and gray wash, heightened with white on blue paper. Framing lines in brush and black ink and blue wash.
- Dimensions
- 12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (30.8 x 25.7 cm.)
- Collection no.
- 1976.188
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Oudry. The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog (La Fontaine, Fables, XII, 13). Jean-Baptiste Oudry; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog (La Fontaine, Fables, XII, 13) — Jean-Baptiste Oudry. 1733.
Medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash, heightened with white on blue paper. Framing lines in brush and black ink and blue wash.. Dimensions: 12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (30.8 x 25.7 cm.).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.