Oudry's Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century EuropeThis beautiful volume published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum to be held from May 1 to September 2, 2007 is the first to focus on the series of life size portraits painted by the eighteenth century artist Jean Baptiste Oudry of the animals in Louis XV's royal menagerie at Versailles. A tiger, a lion, a leopard, and, most impressive of all, the famous rhinoceros known as Clara joined a group of other exotic animals in