| Un lièvre et un gigot de mouton (A Hare and a Leg of Lamb) | |
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| Artist | Jean-Baptiste Oudry |
| Year | 1742 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Rococo |
| Dimensions | 98.2 cm × 73.5 cm (38.7 in × 28.9 in) |
| Location | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
A Hare and a Leg of Lamb (French: Un lièvre et un gigot de mouton) is a 1742 painting by French Rococo painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
Description
The painting employs a trompe-l'œil technique and shows a skinned leg of lamb behind a dead hare, depicted with its eye open and a single drop of blood hanging from the end of its nose. The hare and the leg of lamb are nailed together to a wall.
Oudry was known for his canvases featuring dead game, and A Hare and a Leg of Lamb has been described as, "uncannily real." Others have criticized the canvas as, "lifeless and inert...both highly contrived and utterly dead."
The painting was originally commissioned to be hung in a dining room.
References
- Chong, Alan (1993). European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art. ISBN 9780940717213.
- Carey, Jean Marie (2014). "The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights by Stephen F. Eisenman". Sehepunkte Journal for Geschichtswissenschaften. 14 (7/8): 1–3.
- Edwards, Michael (2016). "The Economy of Still Life: A Practice-Led Exploration of Still-Life Painting". doi:10.25911/5d70ef141f5e4. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Eisenman, Stephen F. (2013). The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights. London, UK: Reaktion Books, Ltd. p. 91. ISBN 9781780231952.
- Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa (2018). The Painter's Touch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780691170121.
- Carnegie, Volume 69, Part 2 – Volume 70, Part 2006. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. 2005.
- "Jean-Baptiste Oudry A Hare and a Leg of Lamb 1742". Retrieved 9 July 2018.
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