Study of a Fox Jacques-Laurent Agasse between 1810 and 1830

Study of a Fox
Jacques-Laurent Agasse between 1810 and 1830
From the collection of
Yale Center for British Art
Details
Title: Study of a Fox
Date Created: between 1810 and 1830
Location Created: England
Subject: fox (animal), animal, animal art, fur, study (visual work)
Physical Dimensions: w21.6 x h15.9 cm
Location: Not on View
Inscription: Signed and Dated: Not signed, not dated
Inscription: No inscription
Artist: Jacques-Laurent Agasse
Type: painting
Rights: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
External Link: http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668372
Medium: Oil on paper laid to board

Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, United States

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Jacques-Laurent Agasse
Apr 24, 1767 - Dec 27, 1849

Jacques-Laurent Agasse 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 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, 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.
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