Jean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Charles Oudry, was also a painter.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau.
Marie–Marguerite Oudry, the artist's wife
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, by his wife Marie–Marguerite Froissé, etching after a Nicolas de Largillière painting
José de Rozas y Meléndez de la Cueva, 1st Count of Castelblanco (ca. 1716), Prado Museum, Madrid.
Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Normally it is used to create images rather than patterns. Tapestry is relatively fragile, and difficult to make, so most historical pieces are intended to hang vertically on a wall, or sometimes horizontally over a piece of furniture such as a table or bed. Some periods made smaller pieces, often long and narrow and used as borders for other textiles. Most weavers use a natural warp thread, such as wool, linen, or cotton. The weft threads are usually wool or cotton but may include silk, gold, silver, or other alternatives.
Weaving a small tapestry on a high-warp loom, 2022, New Zealand
One of the tapestries in the series The Hunt of the Unicorn: The Unicorn is Found, circa 1495–1505, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hung with made to measure 18th-century Gobelins tapestries, also covering the chairs. 1763-71
The Triumph of Fame, probably Brussels, 1500s