Crystal Drinking Glass
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 3/8 in. (49.5 × 36.5 cm) Plate: 14 15/16 × 11 1/8 in. (38 × 28.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1917
Accession Number
17.6.19
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the refined world of 19th-century French decorative arts with Jules-Ferdinand Jacquem's *Crystal Drinking Glass* (1868), a etching now housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Department of Drawings and Prints.emart, a celebrated Parisian etcher, specialized in hyper-realistic reproductions of luxury objects, bridging the gap between fine art and craftsmanship during the opulent Second Empire era. This print captures the exquisite transparency and faceted brilliance of a crystal drinking vessel, rendered with astonishing precision on a plate measuring 14 15/16 × 11 1/8 inches. Etchin...
About the Artist
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart · 1837–1880
**Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart: Master Etcher and Watercolorist** Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart was born on September 7, 1837, in Paris to Albert Jacquemart, a prominent art collector, ceramics historian, and amateur artist, and Louise Émilie Labbé. The third of four children, he received his initial training in etching from his father, who had no formal master himself and emphasized self-taught preci...