Director: Peeters, Jan (Johan) Peeters, Johan (1624 - 1677)
View of Orléans downstream of the bridge
View of Orléans downstream of the bridge
Production: 1648 - 1652
Area: Drawing
Technique(s): Paper (pen, graphite pencil, brown ink)
Dimensions: H. 9.8 cm; W. 30 cm
Inventory no.: 87.7.2
Photo credit(s):
Rabourdin, Carole BELGHADJI, Nadia
Cartel
A member of a large family of Antwerp artists, landscape painter Jan Peeters traveled to France around 1650 to draw "portraits" of 89 French towns for engraving in Caspar Merian's Topographia Galliae, a monumental and luxurious 13-volume work published in Frankfurt between 1655 and 1661. Taken from the south bank of the Loire, the view is punctuated by the steeples of the many churches that betray the presence of numerous religious communities at the time.
School
Flanders
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
Reserve