Ducks Resting in Sunshine 1753 Jean-Baptiste Oudry French Oudry, the leading animal painter of eighteenth-century France, exhibited this picture and Dog Guarding Dead Game () at the Salon of 1753. While not conceived as pendants, the two were hung together by Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725–1779), a key figure in developing what was still considered a novel idea in eighteenth-century Paris, patronizing contemporary French Ducks Resting in Sunshine 437235

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