The Moerdyck, after Jan van Goyen, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
Among the ten works included in Jacquemart’s portfolio of etchings celebrating the founding purchase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is the only painting that is no longer in the collection. For reasons of condition, it was deaccessioned in 1989. In his review of the plate, the British critic and etching advocate, Philip Gilbert Hamerton admired the frankness of the "bare etched line" and the "varied employment of it" such that the print "suggests everything of the picture but its colour."
Artwork Details
- Title: The Moerdyck, after Jan van Goyen, 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 Jan van Goyen (Dutch, Leiden 1596–1656 The Hague)
- Publisher: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.
- Date: 1871
- Medium: Etching; second state of two (Gonse)
- Dimensions: Sheet: 13 in. × 18 7/8 in. (33 × 48 cm)
Plate: 5 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (15 × 20 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings
- Object Number: 19.59.6
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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