LES SOURIS ET LE CHAT-HUANT
Jean Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686 - 1755)
6
$18,000 - $22,000
Wash
Paintings
24.2 cm - 19.1 cm (9.53 in - 7.52 in)
Signed
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The Line of Beauty: Drawings from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet
Jan 30, 2018
LES SOURIS ET LE CHAT-HUANT
6
$18,000 - $22,000
Wash
Paintings
24.2 cm - 19.1 cm (9.53 in - 7.52 in)
Signed
Signedin to unlock
Sotheby's | New York
Jan 30, 2018

The ingratitude and injustice of men regarding Fortune (Jean de La Fontaine, Fables choisies, book VII, fable XIV)

Brush and black and gray ink, heightened with white, blue wash, pen and black and brown ink framing lines, on blue paper within a fictive mount
32.2 cm - 25.5 cm
(12.68 in - 10.04 in)

The cat and the two sparrows (Jean de La Fontaine, Fables choisies, book XII, fable II)

Brush and black and gray ink, heightened with white, blue wash, pen and black and brown ink framing lines, on blue paper within a fictive mount
30.8 cm - 25.5 cm
(12.13 in - 10.04 in)

An overturned basket of plants and flowers

Chalk black and white chalk on blue paper
32.8 cm - 42.2 cm
(12.91 in - 16.61 in)

The man and the grass snake (Jean de La Fontaine, Fables choisies, book X, fable 1)

Brush and black and gray ink, heightened with white, blue wash, pen and black and brown ink framing lines, on blue paper within a fictive mount
31 cm - 26 cm
(12.2 in - 10.24 in)

Still-life of wading birds and fish by the seashore

Chalk black and white chalk on discolored blue paper
32 cm - 42 cm
(12.6 in - 16.54 in)

Stags hunted by wolves

Graphite pen and black ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white
33.6 cm - 56.5 cm
(13.23 in - 22.24 in)

A marble vase, a hare and pomegranates on a stone ledge

Oil ON CANVAS
65.3 cm - 81.5 cm
(25.71 in - 32.09 in)

Four eagles

Chalk black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
26.2 cm - 35.7 cm
(10.31 in - 14.06 in)