The Ninepin Players
Medium
Etching on buff chine
Dimensions
Image: 12.9 × 17.2 cm (5 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 15.1 × 18.4 cm (6 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45698
Art Historical Context
**The Ninepin Players** (1846) by Charlesmile Jacque captures a lively moment of rural leisure in 19th-century France.que, a prominent French printmaker and painter associated with the Barb School, specialized in depicting everyday peasant life and pastoral scenes with a keen eye for detail and atmosphere. This etching likely portrays figures engaged in ninepins—a traditional bowling game popular among working folk—evoking the simple joys of village recreation amid the rolling countryside that defined his realist style. Printed as an etching on buff chine, a thin, warm-toned Chinese paper tha...