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Oudry's Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century France (J. Paul Getty Museum)
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Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Getty Publications
List Price: USD $60.00
Weight: 315
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 11.3 x W: 0.75 inches
ISBN 10: 0892368799
ISBN 13: 9780892368792
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This beautiful volume published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum to be held from May 1 to September 2, 2007 is the first to focus on the series of life size portraits painted by the eighteenth century artist Jean Baptiste Oudry of the animals in Louis XV's royal menagerie at Versailles. A tiger, a lion, a leopard, and, most impressive of all, the famous rhinoceros known as Clara joined a group of other exotic animals in Oudry's 'painted menagerie,' which was purchased in 1750 by his German patron, the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin. The book's insightful essays situate this suite of paintings within the context of Oudry's career; discuss Oudry's remarkable drawings of animals; and present a fascinating history of menageries and of the phenomenon known as 'Claramania' when the real rhinoceros, Clara, traveled through Europe and caused a public sensation.

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