Landscape with Hovels
Charles Jacque
1846
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 3 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (8 × 11 cm) Plate: 2 7/8 × 3 15/16 in. (7.3 × 10 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931
Accession Number
31.20.25
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...