The Sower
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 5/16 × 3 1/4 in. (5.8 × 8.3 cm) Plate: 1 15/16 × 3 in. (4.9 × 7.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1927
Accession Number
27.69.5
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|Jacques-Adrien Lavieille
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...