The Broken Crock
Medium
Etching on light gray China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 10.9 × 9.3 cm (4 5/16 × 3 11/16 in.); Chine: 11.8 × 9.9 cm (4 11/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Plate: 21.5 × 15.8 cm (8 1/2 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 30.7 × 22.3 cm (12 1/8 × 8 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133668
Art Historical Context
Charles Émile Jacque's * Broken Crock* (184) captures the humble essence of rural French life through the intimate medium of etching. key figure in the Barb School, Jacque specialized in pastoral scenes featuring peasants animals, and everyday objects, reflecting the Realism movement shift away from idealized Romanticism toward authentic depictions of the countryside. This print, housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings department, likely centers on a shattered earthenware pot—a poignant symbol of fragility and toil in 19th-century agrarian societyPrinted on delicate light gray...