|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Charles Émile Jacque Biography
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1813
|
|
Born May 23rd in Paris
|
|
|
1830
|
|
Founding and leading member of the “Men of 1830”
|
|
|
1832
|
|
Following military service and brief employment as an engraver for the English magazine La Charivari, he made his Salon debut
|
|
|
1848
|
|
Wrote a book, Le Poulailler, monographie des poules indigences et exotiques, published in 1848
|
|
|
1849
|
|
In effort to avoid the plague in Paris, relocated with his family to the artist’s colony of Barbizon on a property adjoining that of artist Jean-Francois Millet, located on the edge of Fontainbleau Forest
|
|
|
1861
|
|
Was given official notice as a painter and began to employ a vigorous style that quickly became popular with patrons in the Lowlands, the British Isles, and the United States
|
|
|
1867
|
|
Awarded the Legion d’honneur
|
|
|
1833 - 1870
|
|
Contributed paintings every year to the Salon
|
|
|
1894
|
|
Referring to himself as “The last of the Romantics,” he outlived most other Barbizon artists nearly to his 81st birthday and died on May 7th
|
|
|
|
|
|
Links to further information |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|