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
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Jacque · 1813–1894
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...