Prayer (upper); Cart in Front of a House (lower)
1845
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Image (Upper): 2 9/16 × 3 15/16 in. (6.5 × 10 cm) Image (Lower): 1 15/16 × 2 1/16 in. (5 × 5.3 cm) Sheet: 12 in. × 8 1/16 in. (30.5 × 20.5 cm) Plate: 7 1/16 × 5 1/2 in. (18 × 14 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931
Accession Number
31.20.26
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...