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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Jacque was a French artist who specialised in animal painting. He was born in Paris and trained as a cartographer and engraver. He visited Britain in the 1830s finding employment as an illustrator and producing a book of illustrations based on the works of Shakespeare. Until about 1850 Jacque's work was almost exclusively prints and drawings that showed a strong influence of seventeenth century Dutch art. In 1849 he moved his family to Barbizon and took a house next to his friend Millet. Here he came under the influence of Troyon's subject matter and style of painting, treating his rustic subjects, barnyard scenes and images of grazing livestock with an unerring though more descriptive realism than that of Millet. He left Barbizon in 1854, after arguing with Millet and travelled to different rural communities in France recording in his paintings the local customs and traditional clothes of the inhabitants. By 1870 he had sufficient private patrons in Britain, the Low Countries and the United States to no longer need to exhibit at the Salon. From this time, although still painting the same subjects, his technique acquired a thicker impasto and he relied increasingly on his palette knife. | Subjects: | figure (boy); animal (cattle) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Jacque, Charles Émile (French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, 1813-1894) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8370... | Go to resource |
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