Ferme au puits
1842
Medium
Etching; third state of eight
Dimensions
sheet: 7 11/16 x 8 1/16 in. (19.5 x 20.5 cm) plate: 3 15/16 x 2 9/16 in. (10 x 6.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.519
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Jacque · 1813–1894
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...