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Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588) was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault 's expedition to the New World. His depictions of Native American life and culture, colonial life, and plants are of extraordinary historical importance.
Le Moyne is known also to have written an account of his stay in America. This narrative, 'Brevis Narratorio,' forms the second part of Theodore De Bry's collection of 'Great Voyages' and was published in 1591.
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. Le Moyne lost most of his work during the 1565 Spanish attack on Fort Caroline.
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588) was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World. His depictions of Native American life ...
Jan 31, 2024 · From the first permanent English settlements in North America-in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620-through the centuries of westward expansion, Anglo-Americans took possession of the land through acts of surveying, laying out grids, and drawing boundaries.
French Huguenot and skilled florilegium painter Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588) accompanied Rene de Laudonniere’s expedition to Florida in 1564, becoming the first European artist to visit North America.
* 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
