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
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