Tartare de Crimée, plate 84 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 9/16 × 11 15/16 in. (42 × 30.4 cm) Plate: 14 1/8 × 9 13/16 in. (35.8 × 25 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.82
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Tartare de Crimée (Crimean Tatar), plate 84 from the *Recueil de cent estamp représentant différentes nations du Levant* (Collection of One Hundred Prints Representing Different of the Levant), captures the likeness of a Crimean Tatar man armed with a bow and arrow. Created around 1714–15, this etching and engraving is a collaborative by Flemish painter Jean Baptiste Van—who spent decades documenting Ottoman life in Constantinople—and French engravers Jacques le Hay Philippe Simonneau. Vanmour's detailed oil paintings served as models for these precise reproductive prints, bringing distant cu...
About the Artist
Jean Baptiste Vanmour|Jacques le Hay|Philippe Simonneau · 1671–1737
Comment on works: Architecture; Portraits; Genre; Turkish scenes