Composite plate: Woman and Children (a), Old Musician (b), Frying Merchant (c), Landscape (d), Landscape (e), Praying Monk (f), and Scavenger (g)
1843
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (17.5 × 26 cm) Plate: 3 5/8 × 4 5/16 in. (9.3 × 11 cm) Image (a): 1 7/8 × 1 3/8 in. (4.8 × 3.5 cm) Image (b): 13/16 × 9/16 in. (2 × 1.5 cm) Image (c): 13/16 × 11/16 in. (2 × 1.8 cm) Image (d): 1 in. × 2 3/4 in. (2.5 × 7 cm) Image (e): 1 9/16 × 1 15/16 in. (4 × 5 cm) Image (f): 1 1/16 × 7/8 in. (2.8 × 2.3 cm) Image (g): 1/2 × 11/16 in. (1.2 × 1.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.625.422
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...