Miscellaneous
Maps, views and diagrams of military reviews and encampments
View of Château Moyen, 1639 (Château Moyen, Lorraine, France) 48°28ʹ56ʺN 06°34ʹ14ʺE
c.1639Etching; printed on paper; mounted on paper (Mount Type B); gilt edges top and right | 18.5 x 27.6 cm (image and sheet) | RCIN 722140
A view of the Château of Moyen, besieged from 1 August to 15 September 1639 by François de L'Hospital, seigneur du Hallier et de Beynes, Governor of Lorraine (1583-20 April 1660), resulting in the surrender of the castle.
This appears to be the first state of this print. The second state is distinguished by the correction of the spelling, in the title, of the word 'ancinement' to 'ancienement' (Meaume, no.1176.p.170-2).
The castle was held by a garrison of 100 men of the Lorraine regiment Saint-Baslemont, commanded by Captain Touvenin. The regiment, which was ill paid and ill disciplined, had taken over the castle in 1636 and used it as a base for marauding parties into the surrounding countryside. In order to restore order, it was besieged by du Hallier. Touvenin and his men only surrendered after six weeks and once two long breaches had been made in the walls, as shown in this view. (Laurent, p.263.)
The mention of 'Quiquengrogne' in the title refers to the time when the Château de Moyen was built in the fifteenth century by Conrad Bayer de Boppart (d.20 April 1459), bishop of Metz who forced the citizens of l'Épinal, whose seigneur, or Lord of the Manor, he was, to come to the château to do statute labour. This appears to have caused adverse comment from the neigbouring Lords and, to show his contempt for their complaints de Poppart christened the château 'Qui-qu'en-grogne': 'Who grumble about it' (Firmin-Didot p.101.)
François Collignon (c.1610-87) (etcher) [bottom right, following end of title:] françois Collignon fecit
Watermark: Map: arrow in double oval. Mount: cropped, part of a crown?
Condition: one fold line; some foxing. Pressure marks to recto and verso
18.5 x 27.6 cm (image and sheet)
cropped (platemark)
52.3 x 40.3 cm (mount)
Printed title:
PLAN DV CHASTEAV DE MOYEN ANCIENEMENT DIT QVIQVENGROGNE BASTI LAN, 1441. ASSIEGÉ PAR MONSEIGNEVR DV HALLIER / GOVVERNEVR DES DVCHES DE LORRAINE ET DE BAR LAN. 1639. DEDIÉ ET PRESENTÉ A MONDIT SEIG.R [along bottom of view]
Annotations:
George III heading: Moyen 1639.
Other annotations: (Recto) [top right, black pencil:] 1639; [top left, black pencil, erased:] Moyen. (Verso) none.
George III catalogue entry:
Moyen Plan du Chasteau de Moyen assiegé par M. du Hallier, 1639: par F. Collignon.
Subject(s)
Château Moyen, Lorraine, France (48°28ʹ56ʺN 06°34ʹ14ʺE)
Bibliographic reference(s)
Firmin Didot Frères (ed), Panorama pittoresque de la France, Paris, Auz Bureaux de la compagnie Bibliopéene,1839
M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 3044
M. J. Laurent, ‘Rapport fait a M. le Préfet des Vosges sur les Accroissements des Collections du Musée Départemental dan le courant de 1853.’ Annales de la Société d’Émulation du Département des Vosges VIII Pt.1. Épinal, 1853, pp. 259-264
M.E. Meaume, ‘Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot’, Mémoires de L’Académie de Stanislas, 1859, pp. 58-310
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