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Triple Study of an Ostrich

ca. 1669–71
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
Boel’s animal portraits include the ostrich, an object of great curiosity to visitors. Thomas Greene, who traveled to Versailles in 1764 with the British painter George Romney, wrote that he noticed at the Menagerie "very few things but what I had seen before, except a pelican and an ostridge [sic]."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Triple Study of an Ostrich
  • Artist: Pieter Boel (1622–1674)
  • Date: ca. 1669–71
  • Medium: OIl on canvas
  • Dimensions: Unframed: 37 3/8 × 45 1/4 in. (95 × 115 cm)
    Framed: 41 3/4 × 49 13/16 in. (106 × 126.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Peintures (3970)
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts