Charles Émile Jacque - Chickens - Walters 3781
Summary
In a sunlit corner of a yard, poultry of various colors are perched on a mound of steaming straw.
Charles-Émile Jacque (1813—1894) was a French painter of animals (animalier) and engraver who was, with Jean-François Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army. Fleeing the Cholera epidemics that besieged Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Jacque relocated to Barbizon in 1849 with Millet.
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Date
1850
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Walters Art Museum
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