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Jean-Baptiste Oudry

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The artist that I will be focusing on is Jean-Baptiste Oudry, a French artist who focused mainly on painting animals. He was born in Paris, France on March 17, 1686 and died on April 30, 1755 in Beauvais, France. He was a French Rococo painter and specialized in painting animals. Oudry first studied portrait painting with Nicolas de Largillière. And later met Jean-Baptiste Massé. Through Massé, he made many connections and one that made his reputation, Louis XV. Oudry created Louis XV hunting a deer in the Forest of Saint-Germain for the king and was later asked to produce more paintings for the king. Oudry started out painting only portraits but later moved to paintings of fruits, animals, as well as religious subjects. Oudry mainly painted but he also engraved. He was a Rococo painter which was a late 18th century artist movement and style. …show more content…

The media used is oil on canvas. The size 97.8 cm x 131.5 cm ( 38 ½ in x 51 ¾ in.) In this painting, there are two dogs Misse, the white dog and Luttine, the black furred dog. Here we can see Oudry’s love for animals. He painted this for Louis XV. In this painting these two dogs are probably playing with each other in an outside environment and their names are under each dog. Oudry uses elements of art such as texture and shape. The dog's fur are depicted by soft lines used by Oudry. He also uses shape to show objects and represent what they are. For example, in this painting, we can see that the pillar behind these two dogs are made up of a cube and a cylinder on top to show that it is a pillar. Oudry also uses principles of art such as proportion and emphasis. Here, we can see that both dogs are about the same size to show than either of them are the weak or stronger one. He also uses emphasis on the dogs to show that this painting only focuses on the dogs and the background objects are not as emphasized because of their size or positioning in this

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