A Hare and a Leg of Lamb (French: Un lièvre et un gigot de mouton) is a 1742 painting by French Rococo painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Oudry.[2][3]
Un lièvre et un gigot de mouton (A Hare and a Leg of Lamb) | |
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Artist | Jean-Baptiste Oudry |
Year | 1742 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Rococo |
Dimensions | 98.2 cm × 73.5 cm (38.7 in × 28.9 in) |
Location | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio[1] |
The painting employs a trompe-l'œil technique and shows a skinned leg of lamb behind a dead hare, depicted with its eye open and a single drop of blood hanging from the end of its nose. The hare and the leg of lamb are nailed together to a wall.[4][5]
Oudry was known for his canvases featuring dead game, and A Hare and a Leg of Lamb has been described as, "uncannily real."[6] Others have criticized the canvas as, "lifeless and inert...both highly contrived and utterly dead."[4]
The painting was originally commissioned to be hung in a dining room.[7]
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