The Truffle Hunter
Charles Jacque
1845
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 15 3/8 in. (28.5 × 39 cm) Plate: 7 1/16 × 10 1/16 in. (18 × 25.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1917
Accession Number
17.21.26
About the Artist
Charles Jacque
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...