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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
- Medium
- Drypoint
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed): 7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18 × 24 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.
- 31.20.27
- 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; Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931. 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): 7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18 × 24 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: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931.
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.