A Stable, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"
Charles Jacque|Charles Tamisier
ca. 1852
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 4 5/8 × 6 15/16 in. (11.7 × 17.7 cm) Image: 3 7/8 × 5 15/16 in. (9.8 × 15.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
32.36.10
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Charles Tamisier
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...