Caravanne du sultan ala Mecque; mascarade turque donnée a Rome par Messieurs les pensionnaires de l'Academie de France et leurs amis au Carnaval de l'année 1748. Dediée à messire Iean Francois de Troy, ecuïer, conseiller sécrétaire du Roi, chevalier de l'
Etchings include illustrated dedicatory t.p., 1 unnumbered plate, frontispiece?, and 30 numbered plates, by Joseph Vien after his own drawings,which were completed and dispatched in November 1748. The costumed characters represent identified associates of the Academie. Cf. Gaehtgens; Boucher Breazeale reports the prints were not announced for sale until January 1751 in the Mercure de France (p. 119) First impression of the 1st ed Gaehtgens, T. W. J.-M. Vien Breazeale, M. K. Art of Joseph-Marie Vien Boucher, F. Dessins de Vien pour la mascarade
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