A Herd of Pigs

1850

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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)
Collection no.: 64.561.9
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Charles Émile Jacque. A Herd of Pigs. Charles Émile Jacque; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1964. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

A Herd of Pigs — Charles Émile 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).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1964.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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