Émile van Marcke

Charles Émile van Marcke de Lummen

Émile van Marcke, born Charles Émile van Marcke de Lummen (1827 in Sèvres 1890/91), was a French cattle painter, born at Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine.[1][2]

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, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, 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.

The Approach of a Storm (around 1872), Baltimore, Walters Art Museum
Summer Pastoral, Bresle Valley

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  1. Annales archéologiques - Page 277 1833 "lithographies, par Émile Van Marcke, d'après les photographies de L. Robert."
  2. Courrier de l'art: Volume 6 Eugène Véron, Paul Leroi - 1886 "A. L'Enclos, épreuve avant la lettre de la lithographie de M. Théophile Chauvel, d'après le tableau de M. Émile Van Marcke "


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