Upcoming Release: Noble Beasts - Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art
January 8 2026
Picture: Yale Books
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Yale University Press will be releasing Amy Freund's new book Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art next week.
According to the book's blurb:
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.
