Asian Art II - Part One - 22nd May 2024
Lot 776
CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN II (1715-90) AFTER JEAN DAMASCENE SALLUSTI (D.1781)
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Description
CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN II (1715-90) AFTER JEAN DAMASCENE SALLUSTI (D.1781)
THE CONQUESTS OF THE EMPEROR QIANLONG
DATED 1772
From an edition of sixteen engravings commemorating Qianlong's victorious campaigns in Central Asia between 1755-59, after paintings by the Jesuit court artists Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), Jean-Denis Attiret (1702-68), Ignaz Sichelbarth (1708-80) and Jean Damascène Sallusti (d.1781), framed and glazed, 53.8cm x 91.2cm.
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Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex.
Cf. Emperor Ch'ien-lung's Grand Cultural Enterprise, National Palace Museum, p.152, no.IV-20, for a related engraving.