Brief Biography-Jean Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris in 1686. He is popularly known for painting hunted game and animal still lifes. He began as a pupil at the Académie de St-Luc, where his father was the Director, and later under Nicolas de Largillière, with whom he remained for five years. He also came under the influence of Alexander Francois Desportes. The Académie de Beaux-Arts admitted him in 1717 as a historical painter. The finance minister Fagon, a patron, appointed him inspector at the factory at Beauvais. There he designed tapestries for Charles X at Fontainebleau, amongst many other commissions. He was also appointed inspector at the Gobelins factory in 1736. Finally, Louis XV named him a Court Painter. He died of a stroke in Beauvais in 1755.