Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Allegory of Europe

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Artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755)French, 1686–1755

CultureFrench

Titles

Allegory of Europe

Date1722

PlaceFrance

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 60 1/4 × 55 7/8 in. (153 × 142 cm)
Frame: 62 13/16 x 59 5/16 in. (159.5 x 150.7 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

Object numberBF.1987.2

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

217 Blaffer Galleries

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Department

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Galerie Paul Cailleux, Paris]; Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York, 1928; [Ophir Hall sale, American Art Association and Anderson Galleries, New York, May 14–18, 1935, lot 1183]; [Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries, New York]; private collection, London; [Sotheby's, London, July 8, 1987, Property of a Swiss collector, lot 85]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1987.
Exhibition History"Great European Paintings on Musical Themes," Price Tower Art Center, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, May 9–July 28, 2002.

"French Paintings," South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, April 7–December 31, 2005.

"Still Life Paintings from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Ellen Noël Art Museum, Odessa, Texas, January 5–March 9, 2008.

"Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in Eighteenth-Century Paris," The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, April 26–August 7, 2011; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 18–December 11, 2011.

"Two-Eyed Seeing: Contemporary Pasts and Futures at the Blaffer Art Museum," Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, December 9–December 17, 2023. (OL.1658)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed and dated on the lower left: peint par / J B Oudry / 1722

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