Portrait of Stephen Decatur, after medal by Moritz Fürst
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 12 13/16 in. (24.5 × 32.5 cm) Plate: 4 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (12 × 22.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Accession Number
24.90.235
About the Artist
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart|Moritz Fürst · 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...