ArtistJacque, Charles Emile

Artist Years1813-1894

Artist NationalityFrench

TitleFemme Faisant Rentrer des Porcs dans une Porcherie

Year1848

MediumPrint > Etching

DimensionsImage: 4.5 X 5.7 inches
Sheet: 10.7 X 11 inches

Catalog ReferenceGuiffrey 86

ProvenanceEx collection Alexis Pencovic

Accession Number721503

Notes1,
Charles-Émile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of Pastoralism 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. There, he painted rustic or pastoral subject matter: shepherds, flocks of sheep, pigs, and scenes of farm life. In addition to painting, Jacque was also famous for his etchings and engravings. He, along with Félix Bracquemond and Felix Buhot, is credited with the nineteenth-century revival of seventeenth-century techniques. He began his career as an engraver around 1841 by publishing a series of etchings with Louis Marvy. He followed this work with a series of engravings based on the works of Adriaen van Ostade, after which he began to create original engravings / artworks. Charles Baudelaire said of him, "Mr. Jacque’s new reputation will continue to grow always, we hope. His etchings are very bold and his subject matter is well conceived. All that Mr. Jacque does on copper is filled with a freedom and a frankness which reminds one of the Old Masters."

Henri Béraldi distinguished two periods in Jacque's career. The first saw his creation of more spontaneous, Dutch inspired vignettes. In the second, for which he is more famous, he produced larger plates which, according to Fanica, were "marked by the Dutch character of his work".

Jacque also provided the illustrations for numerous books, in particular the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith; The Indian Cottage, a novella published with Paul et Virginie; Picturesque Greece by 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 rural subjects. Another son, Lucien, was executed as a Communard during the French State's bloody repression of the Paris Commune.
(source: wikipedia.org)

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Alexis Pencovic (1921-1987) was the head conservator of the Avery Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, He was also an artist: we know of his paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and book illustrations. In 1986, he retired and died a year later from cancer.

Pencovic collected etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs from all periods, but especially from the 19th and 20th centuries. From 1963, he began to take an interest in the etchings of Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), of which he assembled a significant collection. He owned trial proofs, as well as copies from the artist's own collection and from the collection of Philippe Burty. He was also interested in the artist's drawings and letters, as well as portraits and photographs of him, and even the etched plates themselves.
(Source: Lugt: https://www.marquesdecollections.fr)