Emile van Marcke

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Emile van Marcke (1827-1890 or 1891) was a French cattle painter, born at Sèvres. He studied under Troyon at Barbizon. He received the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1872 and a gold medal at the Paris exhibition. He is represented at the Louvre and other museums of France, and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and in other public and private collections in the United States. Typical of his work is the public domain image "Summer Pastoral, Bresle Valley" on this page reproduced courtesy of the Morton Collection. This gem-like work offers the favorite themes of van Marcke in a microcosm; it incorporates cattle, water, reflections, dramatic cloudscapes and a feeling of life and motion and verdant nature. Nature is idyllic and animals emblematic of that harmony.

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