On offre les prisonniers de la pacification des tribus musulmanes, circa 1767-1774

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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 × 92.9 cm (22 1/2 × 36 9/16 in.)
image: 51.9 × 89.5 cm (20 7/16 × 35 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1674

Artists / Makers

Louis-Joseph Masquelier (artist) French, 1741 - 1811

Jean-Denis Attiret (artist after) French, 1702 - 1768

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Joan. Dionys. Attiret. S. JESU. Misionarius Delineavit.; in plate, below image, at right: L. J. Masquelier Sculpsit.; in graphite, at lower left: B-24176 / No.1. in graphite, at lower right: 1 verso: none
-in brown ink, on sheet affixed affixed to opposite page: No. 1. Kien-Long, vers la fin de 1754, réçoit à Gé-Ho / les hommages des Eleuths, & leur donne pour roi / Amour-Sana, avec le rang de tsing-ouang [underlined], / ou prince du premier ordre à double titre.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius