Poules
1867
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 18 3/4 in. (30.9 × 47.7 cm) Plate: 5 13/16 × 9 3/16 in. (14.7 × 23.4 cm) Image: 4 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (12 × 20.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.10.67
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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...