Noble beasts: hunting in 18th-century French art (book)

 Noble Beast: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art by Amy Freund is published by Yale University Press, in UK on 9th May

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Noble Beasts highlights the work of François Desportes, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and others who, operating from the heart of institutions such as the Royal Academy and the Gobelins manufactory, produced an astonishing volume of highly accomplished work. The book draws on the critical frameworks of human-animal studies and on Enlightenment philosophical debates to explore how and why hunting art’s aesthetic and political claims blurred the lines between human and animal.Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and others who, operating from the heart of institutions such as the Royal Academy and the Gobelins manufactory, produced an astonishing volume of highly accomplished work. The book draws on the critical frameworks of human-animal studies and on Enlightenment philosophical debates to explore how and why hunting art’s aesthetic and political claims blurred the lines between human and animal.

Yale University Press: Noble Beasts

See online:

Clark Institute Podcast :“The Status of the Human”: Amy Freund on the First French Hunting Portrait  [Discussion of "Portrait of a Seated Hunter with His Dogs" (1661)]