Idylle

Idylle is an original artwork realized by Frédéric Jacque in 1892.

Original lithograph on Japan paper. Passepartout included (50 x 64 cm).

Proof n°9 on Japan paper.

Signed on plate on the lower left corner: "F. Jacque". Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right corner: "F. Jacque".

Fair conditions.

Beautiful and intense work depicting an interior scene: several figures are around a table drinking. They are illuminated by a very soft light but the whole composition is characterized by a dark atmosphere.

The work was realized by the French artist Frédéric Jacque (Paris, 1859-1931) . Son of the famed Barbizon painter Charles-Emile Jacque, Frederic was indispensable in preserving the legacies of his father and the Barbizon School. Carrying on in his father’s footsteps, he became a landscape and animal painter, engraver, and lithographer. He won a Medal of Honour at the Universal Exposition of 1889. Two years later, he exhibited at the Society of Painters and Engravers, where he showed intermittently until 1906.