Study of an Old Man
Charles Jacque
1859
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 5/16 × 5 13/16 in. (18.5 × 14.8 cm) Plate: 4 1/4 × 3 7/16 in. (10.8 × 8.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Maurice Le Garrec, 1922
Accession Number
22.91.3
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...