A Hare and a Leg of Lamb (French: Un lièvre et un gigot de mouton) is a 1742 painting by French Rococo painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
[2][3] The painting employs a trompe-l'œil technique and shows a skinned leg of lamb behind a dead hare, depicted with its eye open and a single drop of blood hanging from the end of its nose.
[4][5] Oudry was known for his canvases featuring dead game, and A Hare and a Leg of Lamb has been described as, "uncannily real.
"[6] Others have criticized the canvas as, "lifeless and inert...both highly contrived and utterly dead.
"[4] The painting was originally commissioned to be hung in a dining room.