The Counterfeiters
Medium
Drypoint on chine collé
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 9 1/4 in. (31 × 23.5 cm) Plate: 7 1/2 × 7 1/16 in. (19 × 18 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.57
Tags
BellowsMen
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Auguste Delâtre
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...