Oudry, Jean-Baptiste

Japanese: ウードリ(英語表記)Oudry, Jean-Baptiste
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste
Born: March 17, 1686 in Paris
[Died] April 30, 1755. Beauvais French painter, tapestry designer, and illustrator. He studied under Largillière and painted hunting scenes, animals, still lifes, and portraits. From around 1720 he focused on painting animals, and became one of the greatest animal painters of the 18th century. From 1726 he designed Gobelins tapestries, and in 1734 he became director of the Beauvais tapestry factory, and in 1736 he became superintendent of the Gobelins weaving factory. He designed and supervised a series of eight tapestries (1736-1749) depicting the hunting scenes of Louis XV, and became the official painter of royal hunting scenes. He is famous for his illustrations for La Fontaine's Fables.

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Japanese:
[生]1686.3.17. パリ
[没]1755.4.30. ボーベー
フランスの画家,タペストリーのデザイナー,挿絵画家。ラルジリエールに学び,狩猟,動物,静物,肖像を描く。 1720年頃からもっぱら動物画を描き,18世紀最大の動物画家の一人。 26年以後ゴブラン織のデザインを手がけ,34年ボーベーのタペストリー製作所所長,36年ゴブラン織工場の監督長となり,ルイ 15世の狩猟を描いた8点のタペストリーのシリーズ (1736~49) をデザイン,監督して,王室狩猟の御用画家となった。版画ではラ・フォンテーヌの『寓話詩』の挿絵が有名。

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