Bords de la Marne
Charles Jacque
ca. 1862
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 4 15/16 × 7 1/16 in. (12.5 × 18 cm) Image: 3 13/16 × 6 3/8 in. (9.7 × 16.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.625.210
About the Artist
Charles Jacque
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...