A Hare and a Leg of Lamb

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Artist
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Year
1742
Medium
Oil on canvas
CC0 Cleveland Museum of Art

A Hare and a Leg of Lamb by Jean-Baptiste Oudry is a masterful still life of game and meat rendered with remarkable naturalism. Oudry was the premier animal painter and still-life specialist of eighteenth-century France, serving as court painter to Louis XV and director of the Beauvais tapestry manufactory.