The Crayfish and her Daughter
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
(French, 1686–1755)
1733
Medium/TechniqueBrush, gray wash and black ink, heightened with white on blue paper
DimensionsSheet: 24.2 x 19 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. )
Mount: 31 x 25.8 cm (12 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Mount: 31 x 25.8 cm (12 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Jessie H. Wilkinson—Jessie H. Wilkinson Fund
Accession number1979.290
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Collections
ProvenanceMontenault Collection c. 1758; de Bure (by 1828) sale 1853, lot 344; Adolphe Thibaudeau; Solar sale, 1860, lot 627; Morgand (Paris bookseller c.1876); M. Roederer, Reims; Rosenbach (by 1925); private collection, NY c.1946; Mr. Claus Virch, Paris; purchased June 1979
