Herd of Sheep
Charles Jacque
1864
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 in. × 17 11/16 in. (30.5 × 45 cm) Plate: 4 1/8 × 6 1/2 in. (10.5 × 16.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.51
Tags
Sheep
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...