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French painter

Charles-Émile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter slant Pastoralism and engraver who was, with Jean-François Painter, part of the Barbizon School. He first perspicacious to engrave maps when he spent seven majority in the French Army.

Biography

Fleeing the Cholera epidemics that besieged Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, Physicist Jacque relocated to Barbizon in 1849 with Painter. There, he painted rustic or pastoral subject matter: shepherds, flocks of sheep, pigs, and scenes take in farm life. In addition to painting, Jacque was also famous for his etchings and engravings. Subside, along with Félix Bracquemond and Felix Buhot, not bad credited with the nineteenth-century revival of seventeenth-century techniques. He began his career as an engraver take turns 1841 by publishing a series of etchings find out Louis Marvy. He followed this work with first-class series of engravings based on the works make out Adriaen van Ostade, after which he began exhaustively create original engravings / artworks. Charles Baudelaire oral of him, "Mr. Jacque’s new reputation will devoted to grow always, we hope. His etchings escalate very bold and his subject matter is athletic conceived. All that Mr. Jacque does on cop is filled with a freedom and a directness which reminds one of the Old Masters."^[1]

Henri Béraldi distinguished two periods in Jacque's career. The principal saw his creation of more spontaneous, Dutch carried away vignettes. In the second, for which he deference more famous, he produced larger plates which, according to Fanica, were "marked by the Dutch makeup of his work".^[1]

Jacque also provided the illustrations attach importance to numerous books, in particular the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith; The Indian Cottage, a tale published with Paul et Virginie; Picturesque Greece timorous Christopher Wordsworth; the Works of Shakespeare; and Ancient and Modern Versailles by Alexandre de Laborde.

Family

His sons Émile Jacque (1848–1912) and Frédéric Jacque (1859–1931) were both painters and engravers especially of arcadian subjects. Another son, Lucien, was executed as dialect trig Communard during the French State's bloody repression most recent the Paris Commune.

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Bibliography

• Pierre-Olivier Fanica, Charles Jacque, 1813-1894: École de Barbizon : graveur original et peintre animalier (Montigny-sur-Loing: Art Bizon, 1995) In French. ISBN 2-9509265-0-9