Interior of a Sheepfold
Charles Jacque
1866
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 5/16 × 25 3/16 in. (49 × 64 cm) Plate: 11 13/16 × 17 1/2 in. (30 × 44.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923
Accession Number
51.646.4
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...