Two Windmills in Montmartre
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 2 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (7 × 10.3 cm) Plate: 2 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (7 × 10.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.625.413
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Two Windmills in Montre** (1846) is a delicate etching by French artist Charles Jacque, with printing by master printer Auguste Delâtre. This intimate print, measuring just 2¾ × 4⅛ inches, captures a pair of windmills perched on the hilly Montmartre district of Paris. Jacque, a key figure in the emerging Realist movement and later the Barbizon School, renders the scene with fine lines that evoke the rural charm of Paris's outskirts during the July Monarchy era, before the area transformed into the bohemian heart of the city. Etching, the medium here, highlights Jacque's skill in intaglio pr...
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...