Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu was a French artist who studied at the École de Dessin in Lyon, but he was mostly self-taught. His first prints were realized between 1758–64. When he went to Italy in the retinue of the ambassador Louis Alexandre and Duc de la Rochefoucauld d’Enville, he had a life changing encounter when he met Voltaire and entered the world of luminaries. He had the opportunity of realizing some plates for the Diderot-d’Alembert’s Encyclopèdie. Then he continued to produce prints in Lyon. Boissieu made many etchings of the Roman and Dutch countryside as well as the French countryside around Lyon, which earned him a reputation as the last representative of the older etching tradition.
1770s French Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Paper
Late 18th Century Old Masters Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Etching, Drypoint
Late 18th Century Old Masters Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Etching, Drypoint
18th Century Unknown Elizabethan Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Glass, Wood, Paper
18th Century Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Paper
1790s Old Masters Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Engraving, Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Late 18th Century British Colonial Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Paper
1970s Surrealist Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Drypoint, Etching, Lithograph
18th Century French Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Paper
18th Century German Georgian Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Paper
Late 19th Century Old Masters Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Etching
Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Paper
1970s Surrealist Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Drypoint, Aquatint
1970s Surrealist Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Drypoint, Aquatint
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Paper
Late 18th Century Modern Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Ink
Late 18th Century Old Masters Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Drypoint, Etching
Late 18th Century Old Masters Jean-Jacques de Boissieu Art
Drypoint, Etching