Barnyard Fowl, A Pair of Paintings

A pair of oils on panel, both signed and both located Paris on the reverse.

Paintings size: 5” x 8”
Frames: 9.75” x 12.75”

William Baptiste Baird was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1847. As an adult he lived in Paris and studied under Adolphe Yvan. From1872 through 1899 he exhibited extensively at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris. Baird painted in the countryside of Paris, Barbizon, Brittany and Lake Geneva focusing on local rural scenes that depicted farmyard animals such as cows, chicks, hens, and rabbits. Baird was a member of the National Academy of Design exhibiting there from 1875 to 1879, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1878, 1882, and 1883.

Sources: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs Graveurs, Benezit; Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Falk