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Charles Émile Jacque

Landscape with Sheep

19th century

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Charles Emile Jacque was a member of the Barbizon school, a group of artists working in France, in the Forest of Fontainebleau and the neighboring farming village of Barbizon outside of Paris, from the early 1830s to the 1870s. Its proponents broke with the established elevated rhetoric of the picturesque through the use of painting en plein air (out of doors) and turning to depictions of nature on a more human, accessible scale as an antidote to the increasing industrialization of urban life. In this scene depicting a rural shepherdess seated amidst her sheep, Jacque manipulates light and atmosphere to render a landscape seemingly untouched by industry. With its thick daubs of paint, rough surface, and lack of conventional subject hierarchy (a lone tree is more prominent than the shepherdess seated in a near shadow), the painting expresses a subjective and intimate vision of nature that takes the form of an unmediated and authentic connection with the natural world. [Permanent collection label, 2013]

  • Artist Charles Émile Jacque (French, 1813–1894)
  • Title Landscape with Sheep
  • Date 19th century
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 29 1/8 x 39 5/8 in.
  • Credit line Bequest of Charles Parsons, 1905
  • Object number WU 2120

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Art in the Age of Revolution
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Diversity in the Salon: Late 19th-Century French Academic Art
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Life and Land in Nineteenth Century Europe
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Nature and the Figure
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/09/1983 - 03/06/1983

The Centennial Exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1981 - 10/11/1981

Other than Monet
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/01/1978 - 10/05/1978

Charles Parsons: Portrait of a St. Louis Collector
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 12/12/1976 - 01/30/1977

Salon de Resserre: Selections of European and American Art of the Nineteenth Century from the Washington University Collections
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Saint Louis Art Museum, 07/01/1913 - 11/01/1913

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, United States, Loan Collection, Group 13
Palace of Fine Arts, Central Building (St. Louis, Missouri), 04/30/1904 - 12/01/1904

1905
Charles Parsons

Inscription [LL corner of panel, written in script in black paint:] Charles Jacque

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