Landrecy en Heynault, 1631
c. 1635
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.8 × 50 cm (5 7/8 × 19 11/16 in.); Plate: 16.4 × 50 cm (6 1/2 × 19 11/16 in.); Border: 54.4 × 20.5 cm (21 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 55 × 21.2 cm (21 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43264
Rights
Public Domain
Art Historical Context
Gabriel Perelle’s “Landrecy en Heynault, 1631” captures a sweeping panoramic view of the fortified town of Landrecies in the Hainaut region, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. Created around 1635 as an etching on ivory laid paper, the print reflects the seventeenth-century fascination with topographical imagery that documented strategic European sites during a period of ongoing conflict and shifting borders. Perelle, a prolific French printmaker, specialized in such detailed landscape etchings, often working from drawings or earlier sources to produce affordable images that brought distant ...
About the Artist
Gabriel Perelle · 1604–1677
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