La Veillée; from Magasin Pittoresque
Charles Jacque|François Rouget
ca. 1852
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 8 1/4 × 6 5/8 in. (21 × 16.8 cm) Image: 8 5/16 × 6 1/8 in. (21.1 × 15.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
32.36.31
About the Artist
Charles Jacque|François Rouget
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...