Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu made his prints in Lyon, the city where he was born in 1736. He studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin there but was mostly self-taught. He later went to Italy with the ambassador Louis Alexandre, Duc de la Rochefoucauld d'Enville, and met Voltaire on the way. He came home with a collection of landscape drawings and etched the Roman and Dutch countryside as well as the land around Lyon. His prints earned him a reputation as the last representative of the older etching tradition, and he died in Lyon in 1810. Browse 187 works by Jean Jacques de Boissieu from 13 museums, free to download in HD. Source: Wikipedia