Composite plate: Woman and Children (a), Old Musician (b), Frying Merchant (c),  Landscape (d), Landscape (e), Praying Monk (f), and Scavenger (g) — Charles Émile Jacque

Charles Émile Jacque

Composite plate: Woman and Children (a), Old Musician (b), Frying Merchant (c), Landscape (d), Landscape (e), Praying Monk (f), and Scavenger (g)

1843

Dating
Exact year
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (17.5 × 26 cm) Plate: 3 5/8 × 4 5/16 in. (9.3 × 11 cm) Image (a): 1 7/8 × 1 3/8 in. (4.8 × 3.5 cm) Image (b): 13/16 × 9/16 in. (2 × 1.5 cm) Image (c): 13/16 × 11/16 in. (2 × 1.8 cm) Image (d): 1 in. × 2 3/4 in. (2.5 × 7 cm) Image (e): 1 9/16 × 1 15/16 in. (4 × 5 cm) Image (f): 1 1/16 × 7/8 in. (2.8 × 2.3 cm) Image (g): 1/2 × 11/16 in. (1.2 × 1.8 cm)
Collection no.
63.625.422
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Charles Émile Jacque. Composite plate: Woman and Children (a), Old Musician (b), Frying Merchant (c), Landscape (d), Landscape (e), Praying Monk (f), and Scavenger (g). Charles Émile Jacque; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963. 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

Composite plate: Woman and Children (a), Old Musician (b), Frying Merchant (c), Landscape (d), Landscape (e), Praying Monk (f), and Scavenger (g) — Charles Émile Jacque. 1843.

Medium: Drypoint. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (17.5 × 26 cm) Plate: 3 5/8 × 4 5/16 in. (9.3 × 11 cm) Image (a): 1 7/8 × 1 3/8 in. (4.8 × 3.5 cm) Image (b): 13/16 × 9/16 in. (2 × 1.5 cm) Image (c): 13/16 × 11/16 in. (2 × 1.8 cm) Image (d): 1 in. × 2 3/4 in. (2.5 × 7 cm) Image (e): 1 9/16 × 1 15/16 in. (4 × 5 cm) Image (f): 1 1/16 × 7/8 in. (2.8 × 2.3 cm) Image (g): 1/2 × 11/16 in. (1.2 × 1.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963.

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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