Mareschal de Camp Ameriquain.Son bonnet étoit d'or en forme de Turban, changé de perles, d'une plume de Heron, & de plumes des couleurs de la Quadrille. Son habit étoit de lames d'or; fur les épaules étoient des testes de Tigres, d'où pendoient aussi bien que du bas des manches & du Tonnelet des lambrequins de fourures chargez d'yeux de Dragon, & de pierreries. Le caparaçon étoit une peau de Panthere, recouuerte de feüillages d'or chargez de pierreries, & rebordées de fourures.
[Etched by Israel Silvestre after François Chauveau.]
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 407 x 280mm (16 x 11"). Repairs.
An equestrian portrait of one of the participants in Louis XIV's 'Grand Carrousel', a festivity held at the Tuileries on the 5th June 1662. The procession consisted of riders dressed in elaborate costumes, in this case in fantastical native American dress, with a headdress of pearls and heron feathers, with a jaguar-skin saddle. From a large collection of plates recording the 'Grand Carrousel', "Courses de testes et de bague faittes par le roy et par les princes et seigneurs de sa cour en l'année 1662", with a descriptive text was written by Charles Perrault.
[Ref: 18903] £220.00
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 407 x 280mm (16 x 11"). Repairs.
An equestrian portrait of one of the participants in Louis XIV's 'Grand Carrousel', a festivity held at the Tuileries on the 5th June 1662. The procession consisted of riders dressed in elaborate costumes, in this case in fantastical native American dress, with a headdress of pearls and heron feathers, with a jaguar-skin saddle. From a large collection of plates recording the 'Grand Carrousel', "Courses de testes et de bague faittes par le roy et par les princes et seigneurs de sa cour en l'année 1662", with a descriptive text was written by Charles Perrault.
[Ref: 18903] £220.00