The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog (La Fontaine, Fables, XII, 13)
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Artist bio: French, Paris 1686–1755 Beauvais
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: French
Date: 1733
Medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash, heightened with white on blue paper. Framing lines in brush and black ink and blue wash.
Dimensions: 12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.  (30.8 x 25.7 cm.)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976
Accession year: 1976
Tags: Animals|Buildings|Foxes|Trees