A Wild Swan Attacked by a Dog

Provenance

Edmond and Jules de Goncourt [Lugt 1089]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 15-17, 1897, de Goncourt sale, lot 106, to the Marquise de la Ferronays [according to Paris 1982]. Marquise de la Ferronays (died 1946), to at least 1933 [Paris 1933]. Private collection, by 1958 [Stockholm 1958]. Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 3-4, 1958, Anonymous sale, lot 48. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.

A Wild Swan Attacked by a Dog

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

c. 1740

Accession Number

25737

Medium

Brush and gray wash and black gouache, heightened with lead white (discolored), on blue laid paper (faded), laid down on cream board

Dimensions

31.9 × 41.4 cm (12 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation