Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), Nature morte au trophée de chasse avec un lièvre et perdreau gris et un plant de roses trémières, 1721, oil on canvas, signed and dated, 81x101.5 cm Provenance: Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 14 February 1983, no. 655 Related bibliography: Jean Locquin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Jean-Baptiste Oudry peintre du roi (1686-1755), Libraire de la société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1912, pp. 9-10, Hal N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, vol. 2, Garland Publishing, New York, 1977, p. 1001, fig. 57, ill. Louis XV frame in carved and gilded wood Under UV: a few small restorations, probably about 2cm², in particular in the sky between the hollyhock and the grey partridge. Small accident at top right. The painting has suffered from a lining in the 70s, a little crushed because possible hole in the hollyhock.