November, from "Album of Rustic Subjects"
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 7/8 in. (36.8 × 27.6 cm) Image: 12 13/16 × 9 5/16 in. (32.6 × 23.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
Accession Number
31.87.11
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Jacques-Adrien Lavieille|Imprimerie de Jules Claye
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...