The Counterfeiters — Charles Émile Jacque

Charles Émile Jacque

The Counterfeiters

1843

Dating
Exact year
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 7/16 × 10 1/4 in. (29 × 26 cm) Image: 6 5/16 × 6 5/16 in. (16 × 16 cm)
Collection no.
83.1.1
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Charles Émile Jacque. The Counterfeiters. Charles Émile Jacque; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library. 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

The Counterfeiters — Charles Émile Jacque. 1843.

Medium: Drypoint. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 11 7/16 × 10 1/4 in. (29 × 26 cm) Image: 6 5/16 × 6 5/16 in. (16 × 16 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library.

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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