June, from "Album of Rustic Subjects"
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 11/16 × 13 3/4 in. (47.5 × 35 cm) Image: 14 3/16 × 10 5/8 in. (36 × 27 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
Accession Number
31.87.6
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Jules Claye|Jacques-Adrien Lavieille
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...