Rest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes Berchem

Rest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes Berchem

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes BerchemRest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes BerchemRest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes BerchemRest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes BerchemRest, a Landscape with Figures and Cattle, after Nicolaes Berchem

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.