Femme Persienne, plate 91 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/16 × 12 1/8 in. (41.7 × 30.8 cm) Plate: 14 1/8 × 9 7/8 in. (35.9 × 25.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.59
Tags
Art Historical Context
This striking print, titled *Femme Persienne*, forms plate 91 of the 1714–15 publication *Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant*. The volume offered European audiences one of the earliest systematic visual surveys of peoples from the Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions. Created through a collaboration between diplomat-publisher Jacques le Hay, Flemish artist Jean Baptiste Vanmour—who spent years in Constantinople—and engraver Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin I, the series translated Vanmour’s on-site observations into widely circulated images. Rendered in etching a...
About the Artist
Jacques le Hay|Jean Baptiste Vanmour|Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin I (French| ) · 1671 |1650 –1737 |1750
French, Valenciennes 1671–1737 Istanbul (Constantinople)|