Le Duc de Guise, Roy Ameriquain.La cuirasse étoit de peau de Dragons, dont les deux testes se rencontrant sur les épaules, vomissoient les manches, dont celle de dessus éoit de brocart vert, rebrodé de même que l'habit...Son Cimeterre étoit d'or garny de pierreries, le fourreau à la Chinoise enrichy de même, il portoit une masse d'armes à aîles dorées, & découpées à jour, dont le bâton étoit entouré d'un Serpent au naturel.
[Etched by Israel Silvestre after François Chauveau.]
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 457 x 280mm (18 x 11"). Repairs.
An equestrian portrait of Henri II de Lorraine (1614-64), 5th Duc de Guise, when participating in Louis XIV's 'Grand Carrousel', a festivity held at the Tuileries on the 5th June 1662. He is dressed in the fantastical costume of the 'king of the American', with heron-feather headdress and dragon-skin armour, and is 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: 18906] £220.00
[Paris, c.1670.]
Etching with letterpress. Sheet 457 x 280mm (18 x 11"). Repairs.
An equestrian portrait of Henri II de Lorraine (1614-64), 5th Duc de Guise, when participating in Louis XIV's 'Grand Carrousel', a festivity held at the Tuileries on the 5th June 1662. He is dressed in the fantastical costume of the 'king of the American', with heron-feather headdress and dragon-skin armour, and is 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: 18906] £220.00