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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Like Jacquet's image of the fashionable woman indoors, this painting presents a richly dressed woman posed against a generalised woodland setting as if out shooting. Her character and mood are insignificant beside the projection of her hunting dress - a three-cornered hat, a mauve brocade jacket and a black and white skirt with floral motifs. The dead rabbit at ther feet and the handsome sporting gun are props which complete the ensemble. Jacquet, a portrait and genre painter, was a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, whose influence was evident in his early work. Later, he abandoned Bouguereau's style and began to paint small-scale canvases. He specialised in painting nudes, portraits and genre subjects in which he used stylistic elements and subjects of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jaquet's pictures were exquisitely painted and very detailed. During the nineteenth century, particularly in France, paintings projecting fanciful images of bygone days were in demand, perhaps reflecting the nostalgia of a largely urban bourgeoisie for pre-Revolutionary France. | Subjects: | portrait; animal (rabbit) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Jacquet, Gustave Jean (French painter, 1846-1909) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8445... | Go to resource |
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