Antique Jewels
date: label: Date made
content: 1863
name: label: graphic artist
content: Jacquemart, Jules
label: printer
content: Delâtre
label: publisher
content: Gazette des Beaux-Arts
notes: label: Description
content: Jules Jacquemart reproduced these jewels in <I>Bijoux Antiques (Musée Campana)</I>, working directly from the objects. He started by making detailed drawings or watercolors of the objects, but sometimes he etched them directly on the plate. This print was considered a still life by Jacquemart’s contemporaries. One enthusiastic author even praised him as “the most marvellous etcher of still-life who ever existed in the world. In the power of imitating an object set before him he has distanced all past work and no living rival can approach him.” This etching originally appeared in 1863 in the <I>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</I>, which first published one of his etchings in 1859. Of the almost 400 prints Jacquemart made, about two-thirds reproduce objects.
label: Description
content: The Museo Campana housed the art collection of the Marchese Giovanni Pietro Campana in Rome. When the collection was disbursed in 1861, France acquired a large part of the jewelry, which comprised mainly Etruscan, Greek, and Roman pieces, as well as some 19th-century work. The jewels were exhibited in Paris from 1862 and helped start a fashion for archeological jewelry. They can be viewed today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Jewelry
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14602.01
label: catalog number
content: 14602.01
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Etching On Chine Colle
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 13.9 cm x 21.4 cm; 5 1/2 in x 8 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 20.7 cm x 27.4 cm; 8 1/8 in x 10 13/16 in