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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Charles Jacque began his career as as an engraver but, from 1845, turned increasingly to painting, preferring naturalistic rural scenes, such as this scene of a flock of sheep with their shepherd and his dog in a wooded landscape. In 1830, Charles Jacque was apprenticed to an engraver who specialised in cartography. From 1836-1838, he stayed in London, where he made some woodcuts, illustrating the works of Shakespeare. In 1838, he returned to France. From 1845, he turned more and more to painting and in 1849 he set up a studio in the village of Barbizon together with the artist Millet. The works of the first decade of his Barbizon period include many scenes of shepherds and shepherdesses, painted on small panels and canvases. His favourite subjects were rural landscapes, farm interiors and animal studies. | Subjects: | animal (sheep); landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Jacque, Charles Émile (French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, 1813-1894) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8450... | Go to resource |
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