Full Record |
| Title |
Poultry Yard |
| Collection |
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle |
| Artist |
Couturier, Philibert Leon (French painter, 1823-1901) |
| Date Earliest |
possibly about 1845 |
| Date Latest |
about 1874 |
| Description |
Couturier painted many attractive farmyard scenes, of which five are in the collections of the Bowes Museum. His lively and skilful drawing gives character to his depiction of farmyard animals. There were many artists interested in country life in the nineteenth century, but Couturier appears to have possibly been the only one specialising in representations of farmyard animals. He may have been influenced in his choice of subject by Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century depictions of farmyard animals, such as those by Hondecoeter. |
| Current Accession Number |
B.M.679 |
| Subject |
animal (poultry) |
| Measurements |
30.5 x 44.5 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by the founders John and Joséphine Bowes 1885. |
| Notes |
A couple of seventeenth-century artists were particularly interested in farmyard animals: Nicasius Bernaerts (Flemish, seventeenth-century) and Melchior de Hondecoeter (Dutch, seventeenth-century). The approximate dates given to this painting correspond to Couturier's first Salon exhibition (1845), and to the date when John Bowes virtually stopped collecting. |
| Rights Owner |
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham |
| Author |
Dr Maylis Hopewell-Curie |
