DOI issue:
Nr. 145 (April 1905)
DOI article:Emanuel, Frank L.: The etchings of Charles Jacque
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0237
Jacques Etchings
e< pays age—troupeau de porcs " (1845) from the etching by charles jacque
etchings as the Chaumieres Boicrguigfionnes or the There is never an apparent straining after a tour
stag fighting a wolf. de force in any of his hundreds of plates ; and
His composition is always perfect and of infinite although they are not all of equal artistic merit, yet
variety, and has apparently been arrived at without every one of them is instinct with an ardent love of
effort. nature and of the humble toilers of the soil.
Jacque gets the whole air of the country into his As regards his technique, Jacque was a master
plates—nay, more than the air, the very sounds. of his craft. I have yet to see the plate that one
We hear the buzzing of bees, the lazy lowing of could have wished bitten deeper or lighter ; he
cattle, and the grunting, squealing and " snuffling " always seems to have attained the exact depth of
of the lean French piggies he understood so well tone required, and to have obtained the effect he
and drew so irreproachably (see the illustration had first made up his mind upon without inter-
Troupeau de
Pores sortant
d'un Bois).
He gives us
the warmth
and glow of
sunshine, the
cool and mys-
tery of sha-
dow, the omi-
nous gloom
of a storm-
laden lower-
ing sky, or that
pearly delicacy
so typical of a
calm morning
in France. " paysage-laboureurs " (1846) from the etching by charles jacque
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e< pays age—troupeau de porcs " (1845) from the etching by charles jacque
etchings as the Chaumieres Boicrguigfionnes or the There is never an apparent straining after a tour
stag fighting a wolf. de force in any of his hundreds of plates ; and
His composition is always perfect and of infinite although they are not all of equal artistic merit, yet
variety, and has apparently been arrived at without every one of them is instinct with an ardent love of
effort. nature and of the humble toilers of the soil.
Jacque gets the whole air of the country into his As regards his technique, Jacque was a master
plates—nay, more than the air, the very sounds. of his craft. I have yet to see the plate that one
We hear the buzzing of bees, the lazy lowing of could have wished bitten deeper or lighter ; he
cattle, and the grunting, squealing and " snuffling " always seems to have attained the exact depth of
of the lean French piggies he understood so well tone required, and to have obtained the effect he
and drew so irreproachably (see the illustration had first made up his mind upon without inter-
Troupeau de
Pores sortant
d'un Bois).
He gives us
the warmth
and glow of
sunshine, the
cool and mys-
tery of sha-
dow, the omi-
nous gloom
of a storm-
laden lower-
ing sky, or that
pearly delicacy
so typical of a
calm morning
in France. " paysage-laboureurs " (1846) from the etching by charles jacque
221