A Herd of Pigs
Charles Jacque
1850
Medium
Etching, second state of two (Guiffrey)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 11 7/16 in. (20.5 × 29 cm) Plate: 6 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (16.5 × 24.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1964
Accession Number
64.561.9
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...