diff --git a/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/Image.java b/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/Image.java
index ec44137e..43a0545f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/Image.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/Image.java
@@ -252,6 +252,16 @@ public interface Image extends AutoCloseable {
      */
     byte[] writePNGToArray(int compression, boolean palette, int colors, boolean strip) throws VipsException;
 
+    /**
+     * Write a VIPS Image to byte array in JPEG output format
+     *
+     * @param quality Quality factor
+     * @param strip Whether to remove all metadata from image
+     * @return Byte array of encoded VipsImageImpl
+     * @throws VipsException if error
+     */
+    byte[] writeJPEGToArray(int quality, boolean strip) throws VipsException;
+
     /**
      * Write VipsImage to file
      *
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/VipsImage.java b/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/VipsImage.java
index eba808de..ff1e71e4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/VipsImage.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/criteo/vips/VipsImage.java
@@ -220,13 +220,6 @@ public byte[] writePNGToArray(int compression, boolean palette, int colors, bool
 
     private native byte[] writePNGToArrayNative(int compression, boolean palette, int colors, boolean strip) throws VipsException;
 
-    /**
-     * Write a VIPS Image to a byte array as JPEG
-     * @param quality Quality factor
-     * @param strip Whether to remove all metadata from image
-     * @return JPEG image as byte array
-     * @throws VipsException
-     */
     public byte[] writeJPEGToArray(int quality, boolean strip) throws VipsException {
         return writeJPEGToArrayNative(quality, strip);
     }