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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)
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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