# OUDRY, Jean-Baptiste [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1686–1755 - Profession: painter - School: French ## Biography French painter, tapestry designer, and illustrator. He was a pupil of Largillière and painted some portraits, but he is renowned chiefly as one of the outstanding animal painters of the 18th century. With Desportes he was the foremost exponent of hunting scenes and still-life with dead game. Some of his best work was done as a tapestry designer, and he was head of the Beauvais and Gobelins factories from 1734 and 1736 respectively. He also did book illustrations, notably for an edition of La Fontaine's Fables \(1755\). His son Jacques-Charles, a flower and animal painter, sometimes collaborated with him. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Europe]() - [Boar Hunt]() - [Dead Roe]() - [Dead Wolf]() - [Dog Pointing a Partridge]() - [Farmhouse]() - [Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen \(detail\)]() - [Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen]() - [Hot Cockles \(La Main Chaude\)]() - [Hound with Gun and Dead Game]() - [Landscape with a Brace of Partridges and a Hare]() - [Misse and Luttine]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()