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Niskani, Aoucantouri et Erougantoi, habitans de la Baie de Langle. Orotchis, habitans de la Baie de Castries.
Niskani, Aoucantouri et Erougantoi, habitans de la Baie de Langle. Orotchis, habitans de la Baie de Castries.
Dessiné par Duche de Vancy. Gravé par Simonet. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.]
Engraving. 565 x 410mm (22¼ x 16"). Tear in edge, well outside image area. Small margins.
Two round group portraits: above are inhabitants of the Tomari Bay, Sakhalin; below are the inhabitants of De Castries Bay, on the mainland coast of the Gulf of Tartary. They were drawn by Gaspard Duchè de Vancy (1756-1788), the official artist of the La Perouse expedition, who disappeared with the rest of the crews of the Astrolabe and Boussole in 1788.
[Ref: 40543]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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La Soiree Des Thuileries.
La Soiree Des Thuileries. Dediee a Monsieur Boyer de Fonscolombe Gravee d'apres le Tableau tire de son Cabinet Par Son tres humble et tres obeisst. Serviteur Basan.
Baudouin pinx. Simonet sculp.
Se vend a Paris ches Basan et Poignant M.ds d'Estampes, rue et Hotal Serpente. [n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving, 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼").. Light foxing, mainly to wide margins.
The royal Tuileries Palace stood on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871. In the eighteenth century it was used as a theatre, and its gardens became a fashionable resort of Parisians. The couple in this print are watched by their pet dog. Engraved by Jean Baptiste Simonet (1742 - 1810) after a gouache painting by Pierre Antoine Baudouin (1723 - 1769) who worked in Boucher's studio and married his daughter.
[Ref: 7362]   £420.00  
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