CHARLES DE FERRIOL (Gravürler; JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR) – RECUEIL DE CENT ESTAMPES REPRESENTANT DIFFERENTES NATIONS DU LEVANT

Chez Le Hay, Chez Duchange avec privilege du roi, Paris, 1714. 50x33 cm, 98 full-page engravings (3 of which are folding and 4 engravings missing). In its hardcover binding with leather ridge. The ridge has been professionally repaired, the top margins of the pages at the back of the book are water stained. Atabey 429; Blackmer 591; Colas 1819-20; Brunet III, 947-8; Cohen-de Ricci 392l; Lipperheide 413, 414.

VERY RARE... A 308-YEAR-OLD MASTERPIECE WITH MANY ENGRAVINGS… FERRIOL REVEALS OTTOMAN LIFE WITH HIS DETAILED AND VIVID EXPRESSIONS ON THE TULIP ERA… THE MASTERPIECE PIONEERING THE “TURQUERIE” FASHION THAT INFLUENCED EUROPE FOR A LONG TIME… 98 FULL-PAGE OTTOMAN ENGRAVING FROM DRAWINGS OF THE MOST FAMOUS ORIENTALIST PAINTER, FLAMM JEAN-BAPTISTE VANMOUR, OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY…

IN 1699, ESCORTED BY VANMOR ARISTOCRAT AND POLITICIAN FERRIOL COME TO ISTANBUL, WHILE FERRIOL OBSERVING THE OTTOMAN SOCIETY IN DETAILS, VANMOUR PORTRAYED THE "TULIP ERA" İSTANBUL… GAINING GREAT REPUTATION WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THIS WORK, VANMOUR HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED THE TITLE "THE KING'S PRIVATE PAINTER IN THE EAST" BY KING OF FRANCE XIV. LOUIS… MAJORITY OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF THE ENGRAVINGS IN THIS BOOK ARE AT THE AMSTERDAM RIJKSMUSEUM…

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