Tending the Sheep
1830–1894
Medium
Black chalk, with touches of red, blue, and white chalk on brown wove paper laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 9 13/16 x 15 13/16 in. (25 x 40.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jill Newhouse, 2006
Accession Number
2006.542
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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...