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Oil on canvas depicting a shepherd guides a flock of sheep in a country landscape at dusk, Barbizon School attributed to Ch.Jacque *, of XIXth century.
This oil is in good condition. It has been restored. It is not signed but has plaque engraved with the name of the painter who was present on the frame.
He first learned the burn before and after six years of its commitment in Arlee. His reputation as an etcher allows him to collaborate in various newspapers and the Salon of 1843, where he sends his first painting in 1848. He started painting in Burgundy where he discovered the rural landscape and then moved to Barbizon. He specializes in backyards, barns and lesmoutons multiplies it to satiety ("Herds of sheep in a landscape, 1860, Musée d'Orsay). Although very famous and beautiful landscape painting as serious and dense Barbizon He stopped exhibiting at the Salon in 1870 and never reappears in 1888, he obtained a triumph, the rustic realism is back in fashion. Many museums possess his works Province. (extract dictionary Little Masters of Painting by Schurr and Cabanne).
