Death of Subercaze
Charles Jacque
ca. 1846
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 4 15/16 × 3 3/8 in. (12.5 × 8.5 cm) Plate: 4 1/2 × 3 1/16 in. (11.5 × 7.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.625.414
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...