Original Signed Antique Oil on Canvas-Sheep & Shepherd-Charles Emile Jacque-Barbizon School

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This outstanding bucolic oil on canvas by the well listed French artist Charles Emile Jacque (France 1814-1894) depicts a pastoral … Read more This outstanding bucolic oil on canvas by the well listed French artist Charles Emile Jacque (France 1814-1894) depicts a pastoral scene with a shepherdess and her flock. Circa 1860's. Signed lower left as shown. Some craquelure throughout and the canvas has been relined. Housed in a much later frame. A superb image. Framed and ready to hang. Aesthetically the piece speaks for itself. Plus it has great potential for investment. Keep in mind that the mate (very similar and about the same size) to this painting was offered for sale in Amsterdam's Christie's auction house for $25,000. 29.5" x 34". Shipping cost includes insurance.

Charles Jacque was among the first generation of painters to leave the city for the forest of Fontainebleau, where helped to establish the Barbizon School. Also a founding and influential member of the "Men of 1830" (also called l'Ecole francaise du paysage), a loose movement of artists who, spurred on by the Revolution of 1830, sought out new directions in landscape painting. His strong, realistic, yet sensitive depictions of shepherds and their flocks form one of the most cohesive and important bodies of work produced by the movement.

Born in 1813 in Paris, Jacque began his training in etching rather than painting, as an apprentice to a map engraver. In this area, Jacque was unsurpassed among his colleagues in the Barbizon school. After military service, he went to England, where he worked as an engraver for La Charivari. Returning to France after two years abroad, he made his Salon debut in 1833 and regularly contributed paintings every year until 1870. Winning medals for both etching and painting, he was awarded the Legion d'honneur in 1867.

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