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Print

ca. 1855 (made), 1848 (engraved), 1628-1682 (made)
Artist/Maker
Musée Du Louvre, Paris (printer)
Geoffroy (engraver)
Ruisdael (artist)
Place of origin
France (made)

Landscape-format etching of a watermill with open sluice.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper
Etching
Brief description
Engraving of a watermill, Charles Geoffroy after Jacob van Ruisdael, France, ca. 1855
Physical description
Landscape-format etching of a watermill with open sluice.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19cm
  • Width: 26cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue des Planches Gravées Composant le Fonds de la Calcographie et dont les Épreuves se Vendent dans cet Etablissement au Musée National du Louvre, Paris: Vinchon, 1851
Credit line
Purchased from the Louvre Museum
Object history
The copperplates are preserved in the Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris. The National Art Library purchased 4327 prints from the Chalcographie in 1855, which have since been transferred to the Department of Prints and Drawings.

This seems to be one of the engravings of Old Masters ordered by the Louvre in 1848, in order to increase the collections of the Chalcographie. It may have been copied from an earlier engraving from Jean Matthieu (1749-1815), which shows the same scene but reversed.
Subjects depicted
Water Mill
Sluice
Association
Paris
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964
  • Catalogue des Planches Gravées Composant le Fonds de la Calcographie et dont les Épreuves se Vendent dans cet Etablissement au Musée National du Louvre, Paris: Vinchon, 1851
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.5507-1958

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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