Farmyard Landscape (a), Seated Peasant (b), Beggar (c), Beggar (d), Little Beggar (e), Head of a Breton (f), and Fishing Landscape (g)
1844
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 1/8 in. (20 × 15.5 cm) Plate: 6 1/2 × 4 15/16 in. (16.5 × 12.5 cm) Image (a): 1 15/16 × 3 1/8 in. (5 × 8 cm) Image (b): 1 1/2 × 1 1/16 in. (3.8 × 2.8 cm) Image (c): 2 1/16 × 1 3/16 in. (5.3 × 3 cm) Image (d): 1 11/16 in. × 1 in. (4.3 × 2.5 cm) Image (e): 1 7/8 × 1 3/16 in. (4.8 × 3 cm) Image (f): 1 in. × 13/16 in. (2.5 × 2 cm) Image (g): 1 1/4 × 2 15/16 in. (3.3 × 7.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Accession Number
31.20.24
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...