The Return from the Fields

The Return from the Fields by Charles Jacque|Auguste Delâtre

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 7/8 in. (34 × 48 cm) Plate: 7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18 × 24 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927

Accession Number

27.10.61

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...

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