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Jean-BaptisteOudryDeuxchiensdevantunehuredesanglier(TwoDogsdisputingaBoar’sHead),1740sPencil,charcoalandwhitechalkonbluepaper,416x422mm(320x320mm)onrecto,lowerleft,smallpieceofpaperattachedtomount,inscribed:“786”on verso, top left corner, fragments of two labels; upper left, label: “Regal 248” [corrected 238];uppercentre, label:“GalerieCharpe[ntier][…]6,RueduFGSaint-Hono[ré]L'Automne1943”[torn];that label inscribed in pencil: “Oudry”, “Fot”; upper right, inscribed in pencil: “2613”; top rightcorner,handwrittenlabel:“Oudrychiensetgibier[…]178”[torn];atcentre,inscribedinbluecrayon:“Wie2006/2”;centreleft,handwrittenlabel:“26/3”Provenance

(…)Bylatest1945:HildebrandGurlitt,Aschbach1945–1950CentralCollectingPointWiesbaden,no.WIE2006/2From15December1950:HildebrandGurlitt,DusseldorfBydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/SalzburgFrom6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt

Exhibition:

L’Automne.GalerieCharpentier,Paris,1943.[no.95or96,asChiensetGibier]Bibliographicalreferences:

Opperman,HalN. Jean-BaptisteOudry.2vols.NewYork:Garland,1977. [no.D987, fig.434,aspresentwhereaboutsunknown]

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Primarysources:NationalArchives,CollegePark,Maryland(NARA):M1947,WiesbadenCentralCollectingPoint,PropertyCardno.WIE2006/2www.fold3.com/image/231985706(3August2015)SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV(Part2)/079

Furthersourcesconsulted:

Locquin, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l' œuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry: peintre du roi. Vol. 6,Archivesdel’artfrançais:Nouvellepériode.Paris:Champion,1912.

BibliothèqueKandinsky,CentrePompidou,Paris.FondsGalerieCharpentierBusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlittCorrespondenceHildebrandGurlittCulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeudePaumeDatabase“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogsLootedart.comLostArtRépertoiredesBiensSpoliésRijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatieVerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)WittLibrary

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ThisworkisoneofapairofOudrydrawingsfoundintheSchwabingArtTrove.TheotherislistedasChiendevantunchevreuilmort(Dogguardingadeadfallowdeer),(LostArtID:478414).BothdrawingswereexhibitedattheGalerieCharpentierinParisin1943.Theexhibitioncataloguedoes not identify the owner of the two works. The extant papers of Galerie Charpentier, aspreserved by the Bibliothèque Kandinsky in Paris, do not give further details of the lender.Althoughitisratherlikelythatbothdrawingssharethesamepre-warprovenance,itappearsthatthepairwassubsequentlyseparated.

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