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Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588), illustrator and cartographer, accompanied Rene de Laudonniere’s ill-fated attempt to colonize Florida in 1564. The first European artist to reach Florida, Le Moyne charted the St. John’s Bluff region, now Jacksonville, and sketched scenes from the lives of the Timucua Indians.
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was an explorer, colonial administrator, and Lieutenant in the French Navy during the Nine Years' War and the Chickasaw Wars. He was known as the “Father” of Louisiana and the French settlement of New Orleans.
* Ribault’s landfall at the cape of Anastasia Island (near St. Augustine, Florida) occurred April 29, 1562. This first French expedition to Florida, planned as a refuge for French Protestant Huguenots (and which Le Moyne did not accompany), is depicted in the first
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Major French exploration of North America began under the rule of Francis I, King of France. In 1524, Francis sent Italian-born Giovanni da Verrazzano to explore the region between Florida and Newfoundland for a route to the Pacific Ocean. He would find parts of New York Harbor.
Le Moyne. Illustrations of the French Voyage to the New World in 1564. The Spaniards, having made several disastrous expeditions into Florida, had left it for a time unmolested. The French Protestants, attempting to colonize under Ribaud, built Charlefort at Port Royal in 1562, and Fort Caroline under Laudonnière, at the River May (now
Le Moyne's Florida. This 1591 text by Theodor de Bry contains an account of expeditions by French Huguenots to Florida and includes drawings by Jacques Le Moyne, a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's New World expedition. USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections holds a bound copy of this early-printed work in a vellum cover.
Upon Le Moyne's death in 1588, his widow sold the American paintings to Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry, who produced the copperplate engraving Americae Floridae Provinciae for his book America pt II in 1591.
