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Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Swiss, 1767 - 1849
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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 (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 (George Pitt, later Lord Rivers) asked him to paint his favourite dog (greyhound) 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 Johann Georg Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen (viii. 1052 et seq.), he compares Agasse and Wouwermans, 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. 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 he did not work for money, but that he was urged forward by the resistless force of natural genius.

He is also featured in the French thriller L'Antiquaire, with some works credited to him—a painting of two Leopards, among others.

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Studies of a Fox, a Barn Owl, a Peahen, and the Head of a Young Man

Studies of a Fox, a Barn Owl, a Peahen, and the Head of a Young Man (1815)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Head of a lion

Head of a lion

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Head of a leopard

Head of a leopard

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
The Wellesley Arabian

The Wellesley Arabian (ca. 1810)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Saddled Gray Horse Walking

Saddled Gray Horse Walking

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Studies of Summer Flowers

Studies of Summer Flowers (ca. 1848)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Botanical
Studies of Flowers

Studies of Flowers (ca. 1848)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Botanical
Bay Ascham, a stallion, led through a gate to a mare

Bay Ascham, a stallion, led through a gate to a mare

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
The Chalon Family in London

The Chalon Family in London (ca. 1800)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Figurative
Old Smithfield Market

Old Smithfield Market (ca. 1824)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Figurative
Zebra

Zebra (1803)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Vicunas

Vicunas (ca. 1831)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Tiger in a Cave

Tiger in a Cave (ca. 1814)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
The Wellesley Grey Arabian Led through the Desert

The Wellesley Grey Arabian Led through the Desert (ca. 1810)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Study of a Grey Horse

Study of a Grey Horse (ca. 1800)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Study of a Fox

Study of a Fox (1810 - 1830)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Madame Vieyres And Her Daughters

Madame Vieyres And Her Daughters (1831)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Figurative
Nine Greyhounds in a Landscape

Nine Greyhounds in a Landscape (ca. 1807)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Lord Rivers’s Stud Farm, Stratfield Saye

Lord Rivers’s Stud Farm, Stratfield Saye (1807)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Guanaco

Guanaco (ca. 1848)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Group of Whelps Bred between a Lion and a Tigress

Group of Whelps Bred between a Lion and a Tigress (1825)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Clouded Leopards

Clouded Leopards (ca. 1825)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
A Lady’s Grey Hunter

A Lady’s Grey Hunter (ca. 1806)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
A Groom Mounted on a Chestnut Hunter, He Holds a Bay Hunter by the Reins

A Groom Mounted on a Chestnut Hunter, He Holds a Bay Hunter by the Reins (19th century)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
A Grey Pony and a Black Charger in a Stable

A Grey Pony and a Black Charger in a Stable (1804)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
Study Of Four Pointers

Study Of Four Pointers

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
A pointer in a landscape

A pointer in a landscape

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
The Ludlow Carrier-Coach

The Ludlow Carrier-Coach (1801)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Landscape
A Hunting Dog

A Hunting Dog

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
A Donkey

A Donkey

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Swiss, 1767 - 1849)
Animals
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