Le Moulin a Eau (The Water Mill), from Paysages Gravés pour Jean de Médicis appelées aussi Paysages Dessinés a Florence, Vues de Florence, Paysages d'Italie, et Paysages Définitifs (Landscapes Engraved for Giovanni de'Medici, Landscapes Designed in Florence, Views of Florence, Landscapes of Italy, and Definitive Landscapes)

Art Historical Context

**Le Moulin à Eau (The Water Mill, ca. 1618, is a delicate etching by the masterful French printmaker Jacques Callot, published by Israël Henriet and created for the Medici patron Don Giovanni de' Medici This work belongs to an esteemed series known variously as *Paysages Gravés Jean de Médicis or *Landscapes Designed in Florence*, capturing the idyllic Italian countryside during Callot's time in Tuscany. Measuring just 4 3/4 x 10, its second state of three (as cataloged by Lieure) the refined details typical of Callot's innovative printmaking. Callot, a pioneer of the etching technique, used...

About the Artist

Israël Henriet|Jacques Callot|Don Giovanni de' Medici · 1585–1661

Israël Henriet (c. 1590–1661) stands as one of the most important figures in 17th-century French printmaking, not only as an accomplished engraver in his own right but as the principal publisher and preserver of Jacques Callot's extraordinary legacy. Born in Nancy, Lorraine, around 1590, Henriet belonged to an artistic family and grew up as a childhood friend of Callot, the preeminent printmaker o...