Les Conquêtes de l'Empereur de la Chine
1765-1775
Artist
Artist, French, 1715 - 1790
Artist, French, 1741 - 1811
Artist, French, 1730 - 1809
Artist, French, 1736 - 1807
Artist, French, 1726 - 1788
Artist, French, 1732 or 1739 - 1817
Artist, French, 1707 - 1783
Artist, French, 1739 - 1792
Artist, French, c. 1735 - 1804
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 16 etching and engravings on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 64 × 99 × 3 cm (25 3/16 × 39 × 1 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1964.8.1674-1689
Associated Artworks
See all 16 artworksLe Combat d'Arcul
Jacques Aliamet
1767
Le combat de Khurungui
Jacques Aliamet
1767
On force le camp etabli a Gadan-ola
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
1769
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Georges Heilbrun, Paris); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1961; gift to NGA, 1964.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
-on front pastedown, in brown ink on paper pasted at upper left: No 6 / 8me Classe 3me Division / Voyez Catalogue Nominatif / Vol. 20 Page 88; in graphite at upper left: No. 498 dans la vente de M. le marquis de Menars en 1782 / No 139
-on endpaper, in brown ink on sheet affixed at center: Conquêtes / de Kien-Long, / Empereur de la Chine.
-inside back cover, at upper left, in graphite: N 3874 / ERSS 2 vol.; stamped in purple ink on circular paper pasted at upper right: DOUANE / EXPORTATION / PARIS CENTRALE