A Hare and a Leg of Lamb

Un lièvre et un gigot de mouton (A Hare and a Leg of Lamb)
ArtistJean-Baptiste Oudry
Year1742
MediumOil on canvas
MovementRococo
Dimensions98.2 cm × 73.5 cm (38.7 in × 28.9 in)
LocationCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio[1]

A Hare and a Leg of Lamb (French: Un lièvre et un gigot de mouton) is a 1742 painting by French Rococo painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Oudry.[2][3]

Description

The painting employs a trompe-l'œil technique and shows a skinned leg of lamb behind a dead hare, depicted with its eye open and a single drop of blood hanging from the end of its nose. The hare and the leg of lamb are nailed together to a wall.[4][5]

Oudry was known for his canvases featuring dead game, and A Hare and a Leg of Lamb has been described as, "uncannily real."[6] Others have criticized the canvas as, "lifeless and inert...both highly contrived and utterly dead."[4]

The painting was originally commissioned to be hung in a dining room.[7]

References

  1. ^ Chong, Alan (1993). European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art. ISBN 9780940717213.
  2. ^ Carey, Jean Marie (2014). "The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights by Stephen F. Eisenman". Sehepunkte Journal for Geschichtswissenschaften. 14 (7/8): 1–3.
  3. ^ Edwards, Michael (2016). "The Economy of Still Life: A Practice-Led Exploration of Still-Life Painting". doi:10.25911/5d70ef141f5e4. Retrieved 25 June 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ a b Eisenman, Stephen F. (2013). The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights. London, UK: Reaktion Books, Ltd. p. 91. ISBN 9781780231952.
  5. ^ Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa (2018). The Painter's Touch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780691170121.
  6. ^ Carnegie, Volume 69, Part 2 – Volume 70, Part 2006. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. 2005.
  7. ^ "Jean-Baptiste Oudry A Hare and a Leg of Lamb 1742". Retrieved 9 July 2018.
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