House at Saint-Cômte and Drinker at the Barrel
Charles Jacque
1843
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 15/16 × 3 3/4 in. (7.5 × 9.5 cm) Plate: 2 3/8 × 3 1/4 in. (6 × 8.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.10.22
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...