Dux Aurelianensis, Persarum Rex.
[after François Chauveau.]
[Paris, c.1743.]
Etching. Plate 311 x 266mm (12¼ x 10½").
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. He is dressed in the fantastical costume of the 'king of the Persians', with heron-feather headdress and dragon-skin armour, and is mounted on prancing horse. A copy of an etching 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". It is likely to be from 'Recuiel Manifique des Estampes du Cabinet du Roy de France', 1743.
[Ref: 18907] £220.00
[Paris, c.1743.]
Etching. Plate 311 x 266mm (12¼ x 10½").
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. He is dressed in the fantastical costume of the 'king of the Persians', with heron-feather headdress and dragon-skin armour, and is mounted on prancing horse. A copy of an etching 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". It is likely to be from 'Recuiel Manifique des Estampes du Cabinet du Roy de France', 1743.
[Ref: 18907] £220.00