Chasse au Cerf
Charles Jacque|Bertauts
ca. 1853
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 5 13/16 × 9 11/16 in. (14.8 × 24.6 cm) Sheet: 8 15/16 × 12 3/8 in. (22.7 × 31.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.53
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Bertauts
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...