Officer and Laughing Girl, after Vermeer
Medium
Etching on chine collé; fourth state of six
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/8 × 13 7/8 in. (48.5 × 35.3 cm) Plate: 11 × 7 7/8 in. (28 × 20 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.1
Tags
About the Artist
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart|Johannes Vermeer · 1837–1880
**Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart: Master Etcher and Watercolorist** Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart was born on September 7, 1837, in Paris to Albert Jacquemart, a prominent art collector, ceramics historian, and amateur artist, and Louise Émilie Labbé. The third of four children, he received his initial training in etching from his father, who had no formal master himself and emphasized self-taught preci...