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Bernard Picart (1673-1733)

An Inca Wedding

signed and dated 'B. Picart f 1723.'; pen and grey ink, grey wash, the outlines incised, brown ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark posthorn in cartouche
154 x 213 mm.
Engraved
In reverse, together with another subject on a plate with an inscription 'Maniere dont l'Incas marie ceux de son sang'

Lot Essay

A preparatory study for an engraving in Cérémonies et costumes religieuses de tous les peuple du monde, Amsterdam, 1723-43. Picart supplied 261 illustrations for the work published in eleven volumes.
Related drawings are in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Bean and L. Turcic, 15th - 18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no. 238, illustrated

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