
Jacques-Laurent Agasse Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 1
1767-1849Swiss Romantic Painter
Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, 1767 - December 27, 1849) was an animal and landscape painter.
He was born at Geneva, and received his first instruction in the public art school of that city. Whilst still under twenty he went to Paris, in order that there, in the veterinary school, he might make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of the horse 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.), a comparison is instituted between Agasse and Wouvermans, wholly in favour of the former. In that partial article much is said of his extreme devotion to art, of his marvellous 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 it was not for bread or for gain that he laboured, but that he was urged forward by the resistless force of natural genius.
20 Paintings of Jacques-Laurent Agasse
The Royal Collection London United Kingdom
The Nubian Giraffe
$1382
$57.82
Private Collection
A Carriage Horse
$693
$59.66
Private Collection
'Bay Ascham', a Stallion Led Through a Gate to a Mare
$926
Oskar Reinhart Museum Winterthur Switzerland
Landing at Westminster Bridge
$969
Musee d'Arte et d'Histoire Geneve Switzerland
Romulus, Remus and their Nursemaid
$642
Oskar Reinhart Museum Winterthur Switzerland
The Playground
$1137
Kunstmuseum Lucerne Switzerland
Lord Heathfield on Horseback
$766
Yale Center for British Art Connecticut USA
A Lady's Grey Hunter
$659
$60.19
Private Collection
A Grey Arab Stallion in a Wooded Landscape
$683
Private Collection
Daniel Beale at his Farm at Edmonton with his ...
$838
Yale Center for British Art Connecticut USA
The Chalon Family in London
$359
$47.90
Private Collection
A Pointer in a Landscape
$265
Yale Center for British Art Connecticut USA
Lord Rivers's Stud Farm, Stratfield Saye
$1240
$52.27
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Nine Greyhounds in a Landscape
$751
$60.46
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A Groom Mounted on a Chestnut Hunter, He Holds a ...
$513
$56.89
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A Grey Pony and a Black Charger in a Stable
$489
$60.46
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Old Smithfield Market, London
$53.59
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Zebra
$678
$59.66
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Tiger in a Cave
$779
$50.95
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The Wellesley Grey Arabian Led through the Desert
$670
$56.76