Jacquemart was the son of a collector/scholar of china and bibelots, which helps explain the artist’s reputation as an etcher of objets d’art. One French expert went so far as to attribute a new genre of art, that of portraying such objects, to Jacquemart. F. L. Leipnik in his 1924 History of French Etching writes that Jacquemart “made his fellow-artists see the hidden beauties of the inanimate.”

Jacquemart also etched copies of well-known paintings and portraits of his contemporaries. Our etching, Chez Berne-Bellecour, is very similar to a much more detailed etching by fellow artist Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour titled Coquetterie, the latter published in 1876.

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