Charles Emile JACQUE - Sheep Herder on Coast in Rainstorm

Oil on canvas by Charles Emile Jacque in original frame.  Painting and frame have both undergone full restoration.  Signed both lower left Ch. Jacque and lower right Ch. Jacque possibly due to the signature on lower left blending in too much with the painting.  Provenance is interesting...  Originally owned by John Warne "Bet-a-Million" Gates who was a pioneer in barbed wire and the president of the Texas Company now known as Texaco.  The painting was inherited by his son Charles Gilbert Gates then inherited by his widow after his death.  The painting was subsequently inherited by her granddaughter who is the current owner.