Название: Oudry's Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Автор: Mary Morton
Издательство: J. Paul Getty Museum
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 192
Размер: 130,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.