A Scene in the Woods, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"
December 1851
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 8 9/16 × 6 3/4 in. (21.7 × 17.2 cm) Image: 7 3/4 × 6 3/16 in. (19.7 × 15.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
32.36.23
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Jacques-Adrien Lavieille
Charles-Émile Jacque (1813–1894) was a pioneering French painter, engraver, and illustrator whose career bridged the worlds of printmaking and pastoral painting. Born in Paris amid a difficult childhood, he apprenticed at age seventeen to a map engraver, mastering drypoint technique and producing his first etching in 1830—a copy of a head after Rembrandt. After serving seven years in the French Ar...