About the Artwork
Corner of Monsieur de la Bruyere's Garden
1744
Jean Baptiste Oudry
1686-1755
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 51 1/4 × 63 5/8 inches (130.2 × 161.6 cm) Framed: 62 1/4 × 75 3/8 × 5 1/2 inches, 78 pounds (158.1 × 191.5 × 14 cm, 35.4 kg)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, John N. and Rhoda Lord Family Fund, General Endowment Fund
67.78
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower left: J. B. Oudry | 1744
Inscribed, dated, lower left, on stone under vase: J. B. Oudry | 1744
Provenance
Commissioned by Monsieur "de la Bruiere"
1788, sold at auction Duc de Richelieu (Paris, France, 18 December 1788 and days following, lot 10)
Marquis de Breteuil
(C. Benedict, dealer, sold by his widow in 1966 to the Galerie Heim, Paris, France)
1967-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Collombat, J.F. Explication des Peintures, Sculptures, et Autres ouvrages de messieurs de l'académie Royale. Paris, Salon, 1745, no. 33.
Gougenot, L. "Vie de M. Oudry, peintre et professeur de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, lue à l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture 10 janvier 1761." In Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture, vol. 2. Paris, 1854, reprinted Paris, 1968, pp. 365-403 (see p. 398).
Bellier de la Chavignerie, E. and Auvray, L. "Oudry." In Dictionnaire Général des artistes de l'école française, vol. 2. Paris, 1885, pp. 183–186.
Locquin, J. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry, peintre du Roi (1686-1755). Paris, 1912, pp. 17–18.
Locquin, J. Archives de l'art français, vol. 6. Paris, 1912, pp. 17–18, no. 79.
Vergnet-Ruiz, J. "Oudry." In Les Peintres française du XVIIIe siècle, vol. 2, ed. L. Dimier. Paris, 1930, pp. 135–194 (see p. 191, no. 49).
Faré, M. La Nature morte en France, vol. 1. Geneva, 1960, no. 540, p. 331.
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 47, no. 1 (1968): 3-4, 15, color detail on cover.
"Chronique des Arts." Supplement to la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1189 (Feb. 1968): 63, no. 244 (ill.).
"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-September 1967." Art Quarterly 31, 1 (Spring 1968): 94, cover.
Von Miklos, J. and Fiore, E. The Gardener's World. New York, 1968, p. 222 (ill.).
The Photoplatemakers Bulletin 58, 1 (June 1968): 1, color ill. on cover.
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, Gasette 42, 4 (April 1969): 2, color ill. on cover.
Cummings, F.J., and Elam, C.H., eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 116 (ill.).
The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710-1774. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1975, p. 61, cat. 77, pl. 63.
Faré, M., and Fabrice Faré. La Vie silencieuse en France, la Nature morte au XVIIIe siècle. Fribourg, 1976, p. 123 (ill.).
Opperman, H. Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 2 vols. New York / London, 1977 (revision of 1972 doc. dissertation), vol. 1, pp. 191, 532-533, cat. P457; vol. 2, p. 943.
Bergström, I. et al. Natura in Posa, la grande stagione della natura morta europa, Milan, 1977, p. 205 (ill.).
La Nature morte - de Brueghel à Soutine. Exh. cat., Musée & Galerie des Beaux-Arts. Bordeaux, 1978, no. 125 (ill., also color p. 28).
Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 107, no. 78 (ill.).
Stilleben in Europa. Exh. cat., Westfälisches Landesmuseum. Münster, 1979–80, p. 302 (not in exhibition).
Opperman, H. J.B. Oudry 1686–1755. Exh. cat., Galeries nationale du Grand Palais. Paris, 1982–83, no. 147, pp. 256-258, color ill., p. 31.
Rosenberg, P. "Expositions: Grand Palais, Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)." La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 31, 4 (1982): 307-308 (ill. only).
Scott, B. "Versatile Genius of Still Life: Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755)." Country Life 172, 4450 (2 Dec. 1982): 1742-1744 (ill. color fig. 1).
Opperman, H. J. B. Oudry 1686-1755. Exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, 1983, p. 73.
Stewart, David M. Madame de Pompadour et la floraison des arts. Exh. cat., La Musée. Montreal, 1988, unpag. (ill. only on Acknowledgement page).
Mitchell, P. Flowers. Themes in Art. London, 1992, p. 37, no. 19 (color ill.).
Cavalli-Bjorkman, G. with J. Norman and M. Ernstell. Blomsterspråk. Exh. cat., Nationalmuseum. Stockholm, 2007, no. 53, p. 99, pp. 95, 255, 98.
America Collects Eighteenth Century French Painting. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2017, pp. 242, 249, 278 (pl. 13 and detail p. 242).
Latini, Luigi and Simonetta Zanon, ed. Soil as a Landscape: Nature, crossings and immersions, new topographies. Treviso, 2022, p. 13 (fig. 4).
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