L'empereur offre un banquet ..., 1770

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series Title

Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 57.1 × 92.8 cm (22 1/2 × 36 9/16 in.)
image: 51 × 89 cm (20 1/16 × 35 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1675

Artists / Makers

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (artist) French, 1707 - 1783

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at center: Cochin Filius Direxit; in plate, below image, at right: Gravé par J. P. Le Bas, Graveur du Cabinet du Roi 1770.; in graphite, at lower left: No. 16. B-24178; in graphite, at lower right: 2 verso: none
-in brown ink, on sheet affixed affixed to opposite page: No. 16. l’empereur reçoit les hommages des peuples / vaincus, des différentes hordes des Eleuths, / des Pourouths, des Faugouths, des Tourgouths / & des mahométans de la Petite-Buckarie. / Ánnée 1760.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Georges Heilbrun, Paris); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1961; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius