Herdsman and Cattle at Ford
Charles Jacque
ca. 1850
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet ((a) Trimmed): 6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in. (16 × 23.5 cm) Sheet ((b) Trimmed)): 3 13/16 × 6 3/8 in. (9.8 × 16.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1927
Accession Number
27.69.13(a,b)
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...