Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Training under Jean-Charles Frontier is recorded. Claude Victor de Boissieu and Auguste de Forbin are recorded as having studied under Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Residence is recorded at Château de Cruzols. Positions recorded include mayor. Work by Jean-Jacques de Boissieu is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Auckland Art Gallery.

Boissieu was born at Lyon and studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in his hometown but was mostly self-taught. He began making prints in the period 1758–64, then went to Italy in the retinue of the ambassador Louis Alexandre, Duc de la Rochefoucauld d'Enville (1743–1792); he met Voltaire on his way, and returned with a collection of landscape drawings. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu realised some plates for the Diderot-d'Alembert Encyclopédie. He continued to produce prints in Lyon, which earned him a reputation as the last representative of the older etching tradition. Boissieu made many etchings of the Roman and Dutch countryside, as well as the countryside around Lyon. He was also sought after as a reproductive engraver. His pupils included Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin and his nephew Claude Victor de Boissieu.