The Watering Hole
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 in. × 16 9/16 in. (30.5 × 42 cm) Plate: 6 5/16 × 12 5/8 in. (16 × 32 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.625.425
Tags
Cows
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...