Bust of a Man (a) and Sleeping Dog (b)
1843
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 7/16 × 7 7/8 in. (29 × 20 cm) Plate: 6 1/2 × 5 in. (16.5 × 12.8 cm) Image (a): 3 1/4 × 4 5/16 in. (8.3 × 11 cm) Image (b): 1 9/16 × 3 1/8 in. (4 × 8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931
Accession Number
31.20.23
Tags
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...