Le Buisson Kercassier
Charles Jacque
ca. 1875–80
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 4 15/16 × 5 11/16 in. (12.5 × 14.5 cm) Image: 4 5/8 × 5 5/16 in. (11.7 × 13.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931
Accession Number
31.20.29
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...