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

by Marina Belozerskaya

Book Overview

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"