Keywords: Jean-Baptiste Oudry - Canards dans le soleil (1753).jpg Artwork Creator Jean-Baptiste Oudry 1753 oil canvas cm 64 8 80 6 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 616 accession number 71 57 object history Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully Paris after 1764 “70; his sale RĂ©my Paris May 2 “14 1770 no 70 this picture and MMA 71 89 for 501 livres to Leroy or Le Roy ; LĂ©on Gauchez and Alexis Febvre Paris until 1870; sold to Blodgett; William T Blodgett Paris and New York 1870 “71; sold half share to Johnston ; William T Blodgett and John Taylor Johnston New York 1871; sold to MMA credit line Purchase 1871 exhibition history Paris Salon 1753 no 31 <br/>New York Wildenstein Co Inc Paris ” New York A Continuing Romance November 3 “December 17 1977 no 45 <br/>Paris Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais J -B Oudry 1686 “1755 October 1 1982 “January 3 1983 no 146 JB oudry / 1753 ~ lower left signature and date 437235 PD-old-100 Paintings of animals by Jean-Baptiste Oudry French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Paintings of ducks |