Jacques Charles Oudry

Jacques-Charles Oudry (1720–1778) was a French painter.

Life Born at Paris, the son of two painters, Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Marie-Marguerite Oudry, he was his father's only student. He followed him in subject matter and style, painting hunting scenes on a grand scale. He joined the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 31 December 1748 with his Nature morte de Gibier. He exhibited at the salons of 1748, 1750, 1751, 1757 and 1761. He lived for a long time at the court of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine in Brussels. He died in Lausanne.

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