Sheep in repose
1864
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 75.0 × 110.0 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Edmond Tschaggeny. 1864.
inscribed in pen and ink on white painted patch on reverse l.r.: Je declare avoir peint le / tableau (...illeg) entre. / Bruxelles 25 Mars 1864 / Edmond Tschaggeny - Accession Number
- p.301.6-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased by the Commissioners of Fine Arts for Victoria, 1864
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Edmond Tschaggeny and his brother Charles were specialist animal painters active in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. Charles forte was painting cattle while Edmond's was sheep and cattle. Indeed the lone shepherd here is relegated to the far background to the right while the amimals occupy centre stage. The level of detail and realism in this work is astounding, even for a time when these qualities were highly praised. It is well known that Edmond went to great lengths to hone and research his craft and he once made the illustrations for a book on the anatomy of cattle based on his own experience of disection.
- Subjects (general)
- Animals
- Subjects (specific)
- domestic sheep (species) livestock repose (activity) shepherds
- Provenance
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With Ernest Gambart (dealer), French Gallery, London, 1864; from where purchased by Sir Charles Eastlake, for the NGV, 1864.
Exhibited Pictures by Artists of the French and Flemish Schools, 11th Exhibition of the French Gallery, London, 1864, no. 163; Fine Arts Gallery (Compartment 10), Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866, no. 316; The First Collections, University Gallery, Melbourne, 1992, no. 9.
