Facsimile of an Engraving, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"
Charles Jacque
June 1852
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (29.6 × 18.8 cm) Image: 4 3/8 × 6 3/16 in. (11.1 × 15.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Philip Hofer, 1934
Accession Number
34.36.494
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...