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Jean-Baptiste Oudry - Two Cats - Public domain portrait painting
Summary
Oudry has emphasized the large, gleaming eyes of the cats standing over a dead partridge. Both the defiant pose of the cats and the artist's attention to subtle differences in their markings suggest that this is a portrait. The work is contemporaneous with his portrait of "Le Général", Louis XV's cat. Oudry devoted his career to painting animals and was the official artist of the royal hunt.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) was a French Rococo painter, tapestry designer, and illustrator considered one of the greatest animal painters of the 18th century.
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Date
1725
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Wikimedia Commons
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public domain
