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A shaft of sunlight illuminates this scene in which five hens and a rooster are portrayed on masonry steps in the corner of a straw-strewn yard. The artist has carefully delineated the variations in the poultry. As early as the late 1840s Jacque began to produce these small poulaillers. A major example of his work in this genre is "La Sieste," illustrated in Jules Claretie, "Catalogue des tableaux, études peintes," Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, November, 1894, no. 24.
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