Portrait of J.B. Greuze
19th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 6 11/16 × 5 5/16 in. (17 × 13.5 cm) Image: 5 7/8 × 4 13/16 in. (15 × 12.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.756–818
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the world of 19th-century printmaking with *Portrait of J.B.uze*, an etching by Charles Jacque honoring the renowned painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805). Jacque, a versatile artist known for his realist landscapes and animal studies linked to the Barbizon School captures Greuze—a master of sentimental genre scenes and moralistic portraits—in a dignified profile. Created in the 1800s, this work reflects the era's fascination with celebrating artistic predecessors, bridging neoclassicism and emerging romanticism through intimate homage. Etching, the medium here, showcases Jacque'...
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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...