The Little Blacksmith
Charles Jacque
1843
Medium
Dry Point, fourth state of four (Guiffrey)
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 2 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (6.4 × 5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.50
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenBlacksmiths
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...