Poule française ordinaire; mauvaise pondeuse.; from Magasin Pittoresque
Charles Jacque
ca. 1852
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 3 7/8 × 7 1/8 in. (9.8 × 18.1 cm) Image: 3 1/8 × 3 9/16 in. (8 × 9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
32.36.21
About the Artist
Charles Jacque
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...