Estafiers, Cheval de Main et Palfreniers Ameriquains.Les Estafiers representoient des Sauvages; leur vestement étoit une peau de Tigre, dont la teste leur servoit de bonnet...Le cheval une corne au milieu du front en maniere de Licorne.
[Etched by Israel Silvestre after François Chauveau.]
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 470 x 280mm (18½ x 11").
An illustration of some of the participants in Louis XIV's 'Grand Carrousel', a festivity held at the Tuileries on the 5th June 1662. The procession consisted of people dressed in elaborate costumes, in this case fantastical 'native American' footmen attending to a horse disguised as a unicorn. 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: 18904] £280.00
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 470 x 280mm (18½ x 11").
An illustration of some of the participants in Louis XIV's 'Grand Carrousel', a festivity held at the Tuileries on the 5th June 1662. The procession consisted of people dressed in elaborate costumes, in this case fantastical 'native American' footmen attending to a horse disguised as a unicorn. 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: 18904] £280.00