Escuter et Page Ameriquains.Le casque de l'Ecuyer étoit d'or en forme de teste de Dragon, d'où pendoit une longue criniere para derriere...Le caparaçon du cheval étoit une peau de Poisson de Mer, avec des lames d'or cloüées dessus.
[Etched by Israel Silvestre after François Chauveau.]
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 450 x 280mm (17¾ x 11"). Repairs.
An illustration of two 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 a fantastical 'native American' squire and page, one mounted on 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: 18905] £220.00
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 450 x 280mm (17¾ x 11"). Repairs.
An illustration of two 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 a fantastical 'native American' squire and page, one mounted on 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: 18905] £220.00