Rest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes Berchem, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
Jacquemart made this print after the painting (71.125) by the Dutch Italianate artist as part of a portfolio celebrating the founding collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his review of the prints, the British critic and etching advocate, Philip Gilbert Hamerton lauded this plate, declaring, "I had not myself supposed that etching could go so far as this in the imitation of a painter’s manner." Unlike many of the other artists in the portfolio, Berchem made his own etchings, so it is possible Jacquemart had the opportunity to examine the seventeenth-century artist’s own approach to printmaking.
Artwork Details
- Title: Rest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes Berchem, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
- Series/Portfolio: Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York
- Artist: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French, Paris 1837–1880 Paris)
- Artist: After Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, Haarlem 1621/22–1683 Amsterdam)
- Publisher: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.
- Date: 1871
- Medium: Etching; third state of three (Gonse)
- Dimensions: Sheet: 18 3/16 × 13 5/16 in. (46.3 × 33.8 cm)
Plate: 7 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (20 × 15 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings
- Object Number: 19.59.4
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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