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 Painting - Visit To The Farm by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Visit To The Farm

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - Study Of Dogs by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Study Of Dogs

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - Studies Of Summer Flowers by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Studies Of Summer Flowers

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - Study Of Four Pointers by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Study Of Four Pointers

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - A Hunting Dog by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

A Hunting Dog

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - Studies Of Flowers by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Studies Of Flowers

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - A Pointer by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

A Pointer

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - Two Terriers In A Landscape by Jacques Laurent Agasse

Two Terriers In A Landscape

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - The Wellesley Arabian, Held By A Groom In A Landscape by Jacques Laurent Agasse

The Wellesley Arabian, Held By A Groom In A Landscape

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - A Visit To The Farm by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

A Visit To The Farm

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - The Midday Rest by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

The Midday Rest

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - Madame Vieyres And Her Daughters by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Madame Vieyres And Her Daughters

Jacques Laurent Agasse Painting - The Important Secret by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

The Important Secret

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The playground

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Self-portrait with horse

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The Nubian Giraffe

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A Male Quagga from Africa

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Two Leopards Lying in the Exeter

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A Donkey

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Guanaco

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Zebra

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A Lady's Grey Hunter

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Nubian Giraffe

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, 1767 – December 27, 1849) was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland. Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city. Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals. He seems to have subsequently returned to Switzerland. The Tübinger Morgenblatt (1808, p. 876) says that "Agasse, the celebrated animal painter, now in England, owed his fortune to an accident. About eight years ago, he being then in Switzerland, a rich Englishman asked him to paint his favourite dog which had died. The Englishman was so pleased with his work that he took the painter to England with him."

Nagler says that he was one of the most celebrated animal painters at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. In Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen (viii. 1052 et seq.), he compares Agasse and Wouvermans, wholly in favour of the former. In that partial article much is said of his extreme devotion to art, of his marvelous knowledge of anatomy, of his special fondness for the English racehorses, and his excellence in depicting them. He appears first in the Academy catalogues in 1801 as the exhibitor of the 'Portrait of a Horse', and continued to exhibit more or less until 1845 (contradicting Nagler's statement that he died "about" 1806).

In the catalogues his name is given as J.L. Agasse or Agassé. The number of times Agassé changed his address confirms Redgrave's assertion that "he lived poor and died poor". The writer of the panegyric already quoted says, however, that he did not work for money, but that he was urged forward by the resistless force of natural genius.

References

Jacques-Laurent Agasse in the SIKART dictionary and database
Nagler, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, 1872, gives an account inter alia of his engraved works
Füssli, Neue Zusätze zu dem allgemeinen Künstler-Lexicon
Tübinger Morgenblatt, 1808, p. 876
Meusel, Neue Miscellaneen, viii. 1052
Fiorillo, Geschichte der Mahlerey, v. 841, speaks of Agasse and Charles Ansell as the most celebrated English animal painters
Redgrave's Dictionary.

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