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A RARE AND FINELY PAINTED SEPIA ‘FOX AND FOWL’ BOWL Interestingly, about twenty-three years ago, a pair of large oils on
Qianlong period, circa 1790 canvas, painted in grisaille technique with white highlights, appeared
Depicting a continuous lake landscape scene, with two quite at auction in Budapest and were mis-described as ‘after Jean-Baptist
contrasting fox encounters, one scene with a fox attacking a rooster Oudry’. Oudry was perhaps the most famed painter of large-scale
by biting its neck and stepping on its wing, whilst his mate and chicks naturalistic pictures of animals and game. However, the composition
scurry for cover, the other scene with a fox with open-mouthed raised was it seems, clearly based on paintings by Charles Dagomer, as
head howling in agony with its left foreleg caught in a circular metal evidenced by the print source listed above.
foothold trap with an alarmed swan nearby squawking and with wings
outstretched defending two startled smaller swans, perhaps cygnets, A large export punchbowl (circa 1790) with these two scenes in panels
who rush into the lake alongside, the interior center painted with a but with simpler vegetation, was sold at Christies New York in 2005,
vignette of two phoenix (fenghuang), one standing on rockwork, the though that bowl had the so-called ‘Collapsed Hussar’ scene to the
other seated and with a leafless tree and foliage behind, bands of interior.
simple cells and ruyi-lappets below the lightly gilt rim, a key-pattern
border surrounding the foot; all executed in a monochromatic rouge- References: Locquin 1912, Catalogue Raisonné de Jean Baptiste
de-fer, iron-red, enamel. Oudry (Paris), no. 367, an image of swans with young surprised by
11 1/2in (29cm) diam foxes sold in 1875, no. 779, a pastel study of a fox in a trap, sold
1773, and no. 332 a foxes catching a rooster, with hen and chicks
$4,500 - 5,500 nearby painted for M de Trudaine at the Château de Montigny, similar
to one in the Wallace Collection (CR 357), and another sold in 1777.
乾隆時期 約1790年 罕見棕彩描紅《狐狸與雉鷄》圖紋碗
For the Demarteau print source in the Rijksmuseum, see the
Published: Rijksmuseum Collection, nos. RP-P-176 & 177 (figs 1 & 2).
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, p. 100, no. 58
Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger!, Antwerp, 2016, p. 153 (Addendum:
Research Updates)

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014
年-B，頁100，圖版編號58
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tyger Tyger!》，安特衛普，2016年，
頁153 (後記：研究新論)
The two scenes are from prints by Gilles Demarteau (1722-76) after
a series of animal drawings by Charles Dagomer (circa 1700 to circa
1768). These scenes are numbers 22 and 23 in the series and are
signed Dagomer (figs. 1 & 2). Dagomer was an animal painter in Paris
and a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc working in the 1760s.
The prints are in a technique called ‘sanguine,’ imitating red chalk
drawing much used by Demarteau. This explains the unusual use of
iron-red monochrome on the bowl.

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