Women Washing
Charles Jacque
ca. 1845–50
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 5/16 × 3 15/16 in. (13.5 × 10 cm) Image: 4 1/4 × 3 9/16 in. (10.8 × 9.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883
Accession Number
83.1.15
Tags
WashingWomen
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...