Still-life with Fish and Parrot
date: label: Date
content: 1740
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 – 1755
notes: label: Description
content: At the base of some stone building fragments, there is an arrangement of a dead lobster and a group of fish beneath a large fish and an eel dangling from a string affixed via a nail to the remains of the ruined wall. A live parrot, seen from the back, head turned in profile, is perched on a nearby stone at the upper left (above the marine still-life); plants, at right.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-66-1
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black and white chalk on blue laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 x 41.6cm (12 1/16 x 16 3/8in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Frame: 44.8 x 60.3 x 2.5 cm (17 5/8 in. x 23 3/4 in. x 1 in.)