Sheep, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 5 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (14.8 × 17.9 cm) Image: 4 3/8 × 5 7/8 in. (11.1 × 15 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
32.36.26
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection, where you'll find *Sheep, from "Le Magasin Pittores"*, a delicate wood engraving created in 1862 by artist Charles Jacque and engraver François Rouget. This intimate image, measuring just 4 3/8 × 5 7/8 inches, captures a flock of sheep in a pastoral scene, trimmed to a sheet of 5 13/16 × 7 1/16 inches. Produced for *Le Magasin Pittoresque*, a popular French illustrated magazine launched in 1833, it exemplifies the era's booming print culture, which brought affordable art reproductions to middle-class homes across Europ...
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|François Rouget
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...