Herd of Sheep

1864

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Drypoint
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 in. × 17 11/16 in. (30.5 × 45 cm) Plate: 4 1/8 × 6 1/2 in. (10.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection no.: 22.63.51
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Charles Émile Jacque. Herd of Sheep. Charles Émile Jacque; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1922. 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

Herd of Sheep — Charles Émile Jacque. 1864.

Medium: Drypoint. Dimensions: Sheet: 12 in. × 17 11/16 in. (30.5 × 45 cm) Plate: 4 1/8 × 6 1/2 in. (10.5 × 16.5 cm).

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

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1922.

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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