Moyenvic, Lorraine, 1631
c. 1635
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.9 × 50 cm (5 7/8 × 19 11/16 in.); Border: 54.5 × 20.6 cm (21 1/2 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 55.1 × 21.2 cm (21 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43267
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Not to be confused with the 18th-century family of artists of the same name, Nicolas Cochin was born in Troyes and began his artistic career as a painter on glass. He soon discovered the prints of Stefano della Bella and Jacques Callot and devoted his talents to making copies of these and the work of other masters. His earliest prints were made in Troyes in June 1635, but by 1636 he was established in Paris. This view of the Lorraine, which was under siege. by the French in 1631, may be a libera...