Barnyard scene by Jacques Van Coppenolle (1878–1915)

Superb barnyard scene signed Jacques Van Coppenolle.
Undoubtedly one of his finest works on this subject and, as often happens when a painting meets with public success, the artist reproduced it with a few variations.
(See in the documentation a painting from our former collections showing nearly the same composition.)
A very colourful and luminous work, with an almost “living” scene.
Presented in its channelled frame in wood and gilt stucco, gilded with gold leaf.

Dimensions: stretcher 55 cm × 38 cm – frame 73.5 cm × 55.5 cm.

Condition: painting in excellent condition, on its original stretcher; small patches on the back of the canvas but no visible retouching.

Period: very late 19th or very early 20th century.

Jacques Van Coppenolle
Like his father Edmond Van Coppenolle (who signed E. Coppenolle), Jacques Van Coppenolle (born 1878) was a renowned painter and worked as a decorator at the Montigny-sur-Loing faience factory, where he particularly excelled in Impressionist landscape decorations of the Loing valley. Mobilized during the Great War, he was killed at the front and disappeared in 1915. As a painter—perhaps even more so than his father—he specialised in barnyard scenes.