Landscape with Sheep
Charles Emile Jacque (1813 - 1894), c. 1870
oil on cardboard, 32 cm x 40.5 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
A small flock of sheep grazes at the edge of the forest. An old, half-dead oak tree towers above them. This subject is characteristic of Jacque, a painter who lived in Barbizon from 1849 onwards. He is known for his straightforward subject matter: a pasture, a shepherd and a flock of sheep.
Landscape with Sheep is the first Barbizon painting acquired by Hendrik Willem Mesdag for his collection. He bought it in 1874.
- Object number
- hwm0162
- Dimensions
- 32 cm x 40.5 cm, 63 cm x 72 cm, 13 cm
- Provenance
- Purchased by Goupil & Cie, Paris for FRF 1450, 18 April 1874; sold by Goupil & Cie (no. 8914, Paysage (avec moutons)) to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 1800, 18 May 1874; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Charles Emile Jacque
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
The Hague, De Mesdag Collectie, Nederlanders in Barbizon, 27 October 2017-7 January 2018
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., De Mesdag Collectie, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 18
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., The Mesdag Collection, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 18
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 204
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 242