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| Keywords: Jules-Jacques Veyrassat - Harvest Scene - Walters 372547.jpg Before becoming known as a painter Jules-Jacques Veyrassat gained distinction as a graphic artist producing etchings after the paintings of artists such as Daubigny Frère and Rembrandt His long career as a landscape and genre painter appears to have been relatively uneventful and was not recorded in detail Veyrassat traveled widely across France including to Samois a picturesque village on the Seine four miles from Fontainebleau where he established residence This work painted when the artist was at the village of Valvins is characteristic of Veyrassat in both subject and treatment Hay is being unloaded from two carts to form haystacks At the left the grain is being scythed and gathered and at the right in the background several stacks have been completed The artist has displayed his adroitness as an animal painter in the rendering of the draft horses and the donkey grazing beside the nearest stack Also characteristic of Veyrassat is the sense of expanse created in part by the low horizon the unusually wide format of the picture and the foreshortened row of trees receding into the background 1866 Oil on canvas cm 77 150 accession number 37 2547 12515 Sale Paris Hôtel Drouot March 13 1914 Galerie Gary-Roche Paris 1934 mode of acquisition unknown Mrs William S Hilles Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mrs William S Hilles 1977 Signature lower left J Veyrassat 1886 Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat Dallas Museum of Art Dallas 2006-2007 place of origin Valvins France Walters Art Museum license 2D Jules Jacques Veyrassat French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1860s paintings from France 1866 paintings Paintings of reapers | ||||
