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Landscape with sheep and shepherd

Maker

(artist)
1813-1894

Title

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

charcoal on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.8 cm
Width: 45.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4176

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The heat of the midday sun prompts shepherd and sheep to seek water and shade, providing a temporarily Arcadian vision of a landscape in which toil and suffering is unknown. Whereas for many painters and poets (and their audiences) rural life was something to be viewed from the comfort of the town, Jacque chose to move, in 1849 (with Jean-François Millet) to Barbizon, a small village on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where he bought a plot of land and reared poultry and grew asparagus. For the most part, however, Barbizon painters shunned pastoral convention and emphasised the hardship of most rural lives.

Provenance

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

About Time, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/02/2000-30/05/2000

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: “VAN GELDER” (according to Churchill, Dutch paper-maker in Wormer operating in 1803 and 1855).

Inscription: Verso: lower left edge, graphite, Witt number: “4176”; lower right corner, graphite: “#12”.

Collector's mark: none.

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