Title: The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog, from La Fontaine's "Fables", XII, 13
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1733
Portfolio: Fables
Artist:  Jean-Baptiste Oudry 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1686–1755 Beauvais
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash, heightened with white; 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
Geography: Made in    France      
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Animals, term: Buildings, term: Foxes, term: Trees