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256 FROM NICOLAS POUSSIN TO COROT
thought of by all lovers of the chase and was a
constant guest at the hunting-parties held in the
various French chateaux. A painting by him in
the Louvre representing a Huntsman with his dog
and bag of game standing in a fine landscape
shows his skill at its very best.
Oudry’s compositions come very near those of
Desportes : for example, his Chasse du Lozip and
Chasse du Renard at Chantilly, both of which
are noted in the Inventory of the Palais Bourbon.
Oudry was encouraged by Largilliere to take up
decoration also, which he did with conspicuous
success. He was admitted into the Academy in
1699, and being appointed to the Directorship
of the Tapestry Factory at Beauvais instilled new
life into that interesting branch of art, which had
sadly decayed under the direction of Charles Le
Brun’s imitators. His graceful talent shows itself
in certain exquisite designs from La Fontaine’s
Fables executed in tapestry at this factory. His
favourite abode was the forest around Chantilly;
and there he spent much time in painting animals
direct from nature. By insisting that his ideas
should be accurately transcribed he trained the
weavers at Beauvais with much care, thus preparing
the way for Boucher, the decorative genius of the
next generation. A splendid Gobelins tapestry, exe-
cuted after a cartoon by Boucher, adorns one side of
the Grand Staircase at Chantilly. It represents a
young woman seated in a garden to whom a boy
and girl are offering fruit and flowers. On the
thought of by all lovers of the chase and was a
constant guest at the hunting-parties held in the
various French chateaux. A painting by him in
the Louvre representing a Huntsman with his dog
and bag of game standing in a fine landscape
shows his skill at its very best.
Oudry’s compositions come very near those of
Desportes : for example, his Chasse du Lozip and
Chasse du Renard at Chantilly, both of which
are noted in the Inventory of the Palais Bourbon.
Oudry was encouraged by Largilliere to take up
decoration also, which he did with conspicuous
success. He was admitted into the Academy in
1699, and being appointed to the Directorship
of the Tapestry Factory at Beauvais instilled new
life into that interesting branch of art, which had
sadly decayed under the direction of Charles Le
Brun’s imitators. His graceful talent shows itself
in certain exquisite designs from La Fontaine’s
Fables executed in tapestry at this factory. His
favourite abode was the forest around Chantilly;
and there he spent much time in painting animals
direct from nature. By insisting that his ideas
should be accurately transcribed he trained the
weavers at Beauvais with much care, thus preparing
the way for Boucher, the decorative genius of the
next generation. A splendid Gobelins tapestry, exe-
cuted after a cartoon by Boucher, adorns one side of
the Grand Staircase at Chantilly. It represents a
young woman seated in a garden to whom a boy
and girl are offering fruit and flowers. On the