Sport in art; an iconography of sport during four hundred years from the beginning of the fifteenth of the end of the eighteenth centuries (1913)
Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921 · London, Ballantyne and co., ltd · leaf 288
marvellous hangings graduallytake shape under his directing hand. The truth is that Oudrys work with thebrush was very unequal ; those who have seen the Florentine tapestries andknow his wolf-hunt and wild-boar chase in the Louvre, whose hard and un-246 J8<A^ B^TTISTS OUrD\T sympathetic… … FIG. 164. LOUIS XV STAG-HUNTING. DEPICTED IN THE CHASSE LOUIS XV. TAPESTRYAFTER JEAN BAPTISTE OUDRY, 1733-8. See Page 245 here, for we shall have to describe French hunting of that period in the nextchapter. A curious history is attached to Oudrys rise to which we may make brief reference.In spite…
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