Man with a Broken Pitcher
- Description
- La Cruche Cassée etched by Charles Jacque shows a seated man with a broken pitcher in his left hand, at which he gestures with his right. Shards from the pitcher lie on the floor, and a basket tilts off the edge of the table, on which sits an empty glass. It appears that Jacque is chronicling the kind of mishap that can befall the drinking man. Before concentrating on depictions of rural life, Jacque made caricatures for a satiric magazine. In his prints, however, he presented the life of rural people sympathetically, not satirically.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- print
- Object Type
- Etching
- Date made
- 1844
- graphic artist
- Jacque, Charles Émile
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 10.9 cm x 9.4 cm; 4 5/16 in x 3 11/16 in
- plate: 21.5 cm x 16 cm; 8 7/16 in x 6 5/16 in
- sheet: 31.3 cm x 24.3 cm; 12 5/16 in x 9 9/16 in
- ID Number
- GA*14706
- catalog number
- 14706
- accession number
- 94830
- subject
- Family & Social Life
- Art
- Communications
- Country Scenes
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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