Shepherd Watching Over His Flock
Artist
Charles-Émile Jacque
(French, 1813 - 1893)
CultureFrench
Date1864
MediumPencil | Paper | Board
DimensionsOverall: 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (32.4 x 24.1 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated in pencil lower left corner: Ch. Jacque 1864.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2641
Not on view
DescriptionDrawing in pencil with white and red heightening on gray paper, mounted on board.Label TextCharles-Emile Jacque French (1813-1894) Shepherd Watching Over His Flock, 1864 Pencil with white and red heightening on gray paper Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2641 In this highly finished drawing, the Realist painter Charles-Emile Jacque paid tribute to France's peasant worker with what was, beyond a doubt, his favorite image of rural labor: the sheepherder tending his flock. Containing within them a pious allusion to Christ as Good Shepherd, Jacque's many depictions of diligent French herdsmen appealed especially to conservative Parisian audiences. Though Jacque's brand of realism occasionally matched the starkness of his Barbizon colleague Jean-François Millet, it was generally more sentimental in tone, as seen in the present drawing. Here the shepherd is a mere innocent, a barefooted boy who performs his task with stoic resolve. ProvenanceCastano Galleries, Boston, 1953; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum, 1971. Exhibition History"One Hundred Drawings in the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," Chrysler Museum, March 2 - May 6, 1979. (Exhib. cat. no. 66). "Master Drawings at the Chrysler Museum," Small Changing Gallery, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, February 26 - April 23, 1989. "Images of Childhood from The Chrysler Museum," Norfolk, VA, July 29 - Sept. 16, 1990. "Expressions: Nineteenth Century Drawings from the Huntington Museum of Art and other Collections," Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, Nov. 24, 1991 - March 15, 1992. "France Delineated: French Works on Paper, 1650 to 1920," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, July 13 - September 19, 1993. "Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006. "Reopening of the Joan P. Brock Galleries," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Opening in March of 2008. Published ReferencesEric M. Zafran. _One Hundred Drawings in the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_. Chrysler Museum. 1979. No. 66, p. 27. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1991, No. 89, p. 113; Color Plate No. 89, p. 113.
Mid 16th century
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