Swan Attacked by a Dog
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
French, 1686–1755
Date1745
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions70 x 82 in. (177.8 x 208.3 cm)
Frame: 80 1/8 x 92 1/4 in. (203.5 x 234.3 cm)
Frame: 80 1/8 x 92 1/4 in. (203.5 x 234.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.52.9.131
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesWildenstein and Co., French XVIII Century Paintings (exhibition catalogue) (New York, 1948), no. 35.
Masterpieces of French Painting Through Five Centuries (exhibition catalogue) (New Orleans: Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1953), cat. no. 29.
Art News (April 1956), 55, illus.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 159, illus. (b-w).
Ruth Davidson, “Recent Museum Accessions,” Antiques (June 1972), 950.
Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 62, illus. (b-w) 63.
Hal Opperman, J.-B. Oudry, 1686–1735 (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Ministere de la Culture, 1982), 213, illus. fig. 115a.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 149.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 128, (color) cover.
A. Lindsay Price, Swans of the World: In Nature, History, Myth & Art (Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, 1994), illus. 34.
Charles Edward Eaton, “A Story of Response,” in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 29–33; illus. (color) 29. Reprinted in The Man From Buena Vista by Charles Edward Eaton (Cranbury, NJ, Cornwall Books, 2001), 215–20, illus. (color) p. facing 215.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for Swan Attacked by a Dog, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 172, illus. (color).
M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 290, no. 5 (August 6, 2003), discussed 571, illus. (color) 563, 571, and cover.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for Swan Attacked by a Dog, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 352, illus. (color) 353.
Lisanne Wepler, Bilderzählungen in der Vogelmalerei: Des Niederländischen Barocks (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2014), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 94, fig. 96.
Exhibition HistoryNew Orleans, LA, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 'Masterpieces of French Painting Through Five Centuries," October 17, 1953-January 10, 1954, cat. no. 29.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 62, illus. (b-w) 63.
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