Juif, plate 63 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/16 in. × 12 in. (41.7 × 30.5 cm) Plate: 14 1/8 × 9 3/4 in. (35.8 × 24.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.67
Tags
Art Historical Context
This print, titled *Juif* (Jew), forms plate 63 in the celebrated 1714–15 publication *Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant*. Compiled by Jacques le Hay after paintings by Jean Baptiste Vanmour and engraved by Bernard Baron, the volume offered European audiences one of the earliest systematic visual surveys of the peoples of the Ottoman Empire and eastern Mediterranean. Through its careful documentation of dress and appearance, the series reflected the period’s growing fascination with ethnographic detail and the exotic “Orient.” Created in etching and engraving...
About the Artist
Jacques le Hay|Jean Baptiste Vanmour|Bernard Baron ( |French) · 1650 |1671 –1750 |1737
|French, Valenciennes 1671–1737 Istanbul (Constantinople)