Achille Jacquet, printmaker, was born on 28 July 1845 in Courbevoie, France. He was younger brother to artist Jules Jacquet and was a student at l'École des Beaux-Arts where his teachers Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont and Isidore Pils. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1870 for burin engraving and he regularly participated in the Salons des Artistes Français, winning medals in 1877, 1881, and 1884.

Jacquet won a Medal of Honor at the Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris in 1889, and the following year, he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universele. He was elected to l'École des Beaux-Arts, replacing Henriquel-Dupont, on 19 March 1802 and, in 1906, he served as President. In 1900, Jacquet was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor.

Jacquet was a printmaker who focused on engraving and aquatint. He engraved plates after the old masters, notably Daniel de Volterre, Palma Vacchio, and Eustache Le Sueur and after Modern masters, notably William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Alexandre Cabanel, Ernest Meissonier, and Édouard Detaille. Jacquet also engraved a large number of original portraits.

Achille Jacquet is represented in the collections of the British Museum, London and the Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland.

Achille Jacquet died 20 October 1908 in Paris.