Le Verveux; from Magasin Pittoresque
Charles Jacque|François Rouget
ca. 1852
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 11/16 × 7 7/16 in. (29.7 × 18.9 cm) Image: 6 5/8 × 5 15/16 in. (16.8 × 15.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Philip Hofer, 1934
Accession Number
34.36.501
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|François Rouget
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...