After Jean Baptiste Oudry

After JEAN BAPTISTE OUDRY (Paris, 1686 - Oise, Beauvais, 1755); 18th century.
"Collin Maillard". Series of "Les Amusement Champestres".
Tapestry.
It has slight faults.
Measurements: 195.5 x 231.5 cm; 204 x 241 cm (frame).
Tapestry of the XVIII century in which a country scene is represented, in which several characters play the blind man's buffalo. The work is inspired by models established by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, son of the painter and art dealer Jacques Oudry, began his training at the Academy of St. Luke in Paris, where his father was director and where he worked as a teacher. It is believed that he was a pupil and collaborator of Nicolas de Larguillière. A member of the Acadèmie Royale de Peinture et de Scuplture in 1719, he worked there as a teacher from 1743.
In his career, he began with portraits, and then devoted himself to still lifes and religious subjects. He was commissioned to design the series "Les Amusements Champêtres" at the Royal Tapestry Factory of Beauvais, one of the most important of the time. After working for the Marquis de Beringhen, he made the work that brought him the greatest fame, (Louis XV hunting a deer in the Forest of Saint-Germain), beginning a series of commissions from the monarch, and a large number of works, whose success brought him a very comfortable economic situation and the appointment of Inspector in the Gobelins Factory since 1736, also making cartoons for tapestries, work in which he focused mainly during the 1730s. He produced a large number of excellent landscapes with animals and hunting scenes, as well as portraits, history subjects, still lifes, etc.
His fame became so great that he received offers from Czar Peter the Great and the King of Denmark, which he turned down to stay in France, where he managed an important studio, with a large number of assistants.