Entrance to an Inn, with Peasant Drinking
Medium
Etching on light gray China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.6 × 15.1 cm (5 × 6 in.); Chine: 13.1 × 15.6 cm (5 3/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Plate: 15.4 × 17.6 cm (6 1/8 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 31.3 × 42.7 cm (12 3/8 × 16 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133139
Art Historical Context
**Entrance to an Inn, with Peasant Drinking** (1849) by Charles Émile Jacque captures a slice of everyday rural life in 19th-century France. The etching depicts a humble inn entrance where a peasant pauses for a drink, evoking the simplicity and camaraderie of countryside gatherings. Jacque, a prominent French printmaker and painter associated with the Barbizon school, specialized in such intimate scenes of peasants and farm animals, reflecting the era's growing fascination with authentic, unidealized nature and labor. This work is a fine example of etching, an intaglio technique where the ar...