Landscape, after a sketch by Eglon van der Neer
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 19 3/16 in. (34.3 × 48.8 cm) Plate: 10 1/4 × 14 15/16 in. (26 × 38 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.1036
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Eglon van der Neer
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...