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La Promenade sur l’eau [The Walkway on the Water], from Paysages Gravés pour Jean de Médicis [Landscapes Engraved for Giovanni de Medici]
La Promenade sur l’eau [The Walkway on the Water], from Paysages Gravés pour Jean de Médicis [Landscapes Engraved for Giovanni de Medici]

La Promenade sur l’eau [The Walkway on the Water], from Paysages Gravés pour Jean de Médicis [Landscapes Engraved for Giovanni de Medici]

Primary (Nancy, France, 1592–1635)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1615
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 4 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (11.4 × 24.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.506
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.506
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Label Text
The Italian Landscapes consist of ten views of the Tuscan coast and countryside. It was traditionally thought that Giovanni de’Medici commissioned the series based on a letter Callot wrote to him in 1618 to present a series of landscape etchings (“the first of the kind I have made”). The actual circumstance of their creation, however, remains unclear. When the series was first published, in 1633, Callot’s French follower Collignon supplied a title page.
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