Paintings

Sheep at Pasture

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Type: Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date: c. 1870
Accession number: 7.14
Maker: Charles Émile Jacque(Opens in new tab) (French, 1813–1894)
Dimensions: 27 x 39 1/2 in. (68.6 x 100.3 cm.)
Medium: oil on canvas
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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Jacque was well known for his paintings and engravings featuring farm animals and peasants in rural France. Like his Barbizon contemporaries, Jacque celebrated the agricultural landscape and animal husbandry, seeking to paint it without poetic overtones or classical literary associations.

Sheep at Pasture

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