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Chickens
(18th and 19th Centuries )
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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Provenance
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Félix Ziem [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, between 1878-1884, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 7 1/16 x W: 10 1/4 in. (18 x 26 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1878-1884
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.80
