He remained a Huguenot, dying before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but was happy to illustrate religious subjects to Catholic taste.

Roughly 1600 etchings are attributed to him, with subjects including: daily life, religion, literature, fashion, technology, and science.

[citation needed] Many of his images give informative detail about middle and upper-class daily life in the period, although they must be treated with care as historical evidence.

His combination of very carefully depicted grand interiors with relatively trivial domestic subjects was original and highly influential on French art, and also abroad — William Hogarth's engravings are, among other things, a parody of the style.

[2] He took Callot's highly detailed small images to a larger size, and a wider range of subject matter.