The Sick Stag

Provenance

Sold by the artist to Jean-Louis Regnard de Montenault, 1751. Frères de Bure (booksellers), by 1828; sold, Paris, Dec. 1–18, 1853, lot 344, to Count Adolphe-Narcise Thibaudeau, Paris. L. Felix Solar, Paris, from 1856; sold, Paris, Nov. 19–Dec. 8, 1860, lot 627 to M. Cléder for Baron Isidore Taylor, Paris. Emile Pereire, Paris; Librairie Morgand et Fatout, Paris, 1876; sold to Louis Olry-Roederer, Reims; sold to Rosenbach, New York, by 1923; sold to Raphael Esmerian, by 1946; sold, Galleria, Paris, June 6, 1973, lot 46. Bill Blass; sold, Christie's, New York, Jan.12, 1988, lot 105, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

The Sick Stag

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

1733

Accession Number

151456

Medium

Brush and black and gray ink and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper, with border in pen and black ink and brush and blue and gray wash

Dimensions

31.1 × 25.9 cm (12 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)

Classification

brush and ink

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection