L'Enfant Prodigue
ca. 1868
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in. (24.2 × 34.2 cm) Plate: 5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in. (14.5 × 20.9 cm) Image: 4 5/8 × 7 1/16 in. (11.8 × 18 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.10.73
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Auguste Delâtre
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...