Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Allegory of Europe

ArtistFrench, 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
On view

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Provenance[Galerie Paul Cailleux, Paris]; purchased by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Ophir Hall, New York, 1928; [American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Ophir Hall sale, May 14–18, 1935, lot 1183]; [Ehrich-Newhouse Galleries, New York]; Private collection, London; [Sotheby's, London, anonymous sale (The Property of a Swiss Collector), July 8, 1987, 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.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated on the lower left: peint par / J B Oudry / 1722

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