Watermill

Prints and Drawings

1782

Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, 1736-1810)
after Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682)

The inscription on this drawing indicates it was drawn from the collection of M. Tronchin,a senior state counselor A friend of the Tronchin family since 1765, de Boissieu returned to Geneva in late 1781 to engrave works in famous collections. This print is part of a series of works, notable for their large size and finished execution, that Boissieu finished in July, 1782.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Jacques de Boissieu
Title: Watermill
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1782
Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions: Image: 30.2 × 42.2 cm (11 15/16 × 16 5/8 in.); Plate: 35.6 × 47.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 7/8 in.); Sheet: 37.2 × 49.3 cm (14 11/16 × 19 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2014
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