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A much adapted version of a picture dated 1712, formerly in the collection of Louis XIV and now in the Louvre. Typical of the more ambitious buffets Desportes began to paint at the end of Louis XIV’s reign, the picture, with P628 may be compared with Oudry’s similar subjects (cf. Oudry P626 and P630). They were described by the Revue Universelle des Arts in 1857 as ‘incontestably the finest which came from the brush of Desportes’. Lord Hertford bought them at the Patureau sale the same year, describing them with his usual studied insouciance as ‘a little rubbish for the country … beautiful of the sort & perfect for my shooting place’.

The Wallace Collection

London

Title

Dogs, Dead Game and Fruit

Date

1715

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 128.5 x W 161.5 cm

Accession number

P594

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1857; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

The Wallace Collection

Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, Greater London W1U 3BN England

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Artist or maker

Alexandre-François Desportes

1661–1743

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