Le combat de Khurungui

circa 1767-1774

Jacques Aliamet

Artist, French, 1726 - 1788

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 58 × 92.8 cm (22 13/16 × 36 9/16 in.)
    image: 50.8 × 88.9 cm (20 × 35 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.1677

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Associated Artworks

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Le Combat d'Arcul

Jacques Aliamet

1767

On force le camp etabli a Gadan-ola

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

1769

Le chef d'Us-Turfan se soumet avec sa ville

Pierre-Philippe Choffard

1774

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Georges Heilbrun, Paris); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1961; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image, at left: J. Joannes Damascenus à SS.ta Conceptione, Augustinianus excalcatus et Missionarius Apostolicus Sacrae Congregationis delineavit et fecit.; in plate, below image, at center: C.N. Cochin Filius Direxit.; in plate, below image, at right: J. Aliamet Sculp.; in graphite, at lower left: No. 2 B-24167; in graphite, at lower right: 4
-in brown ink, on sheet affixed affixed to opposite page: No. 15. [crossed out with “2” written in graphite] Combat du 1er. Septembre 1759. dans la montagne / de Poulok Kol, près des lacs de Poulang-Kol / & d’Jsit [?] kol & de la ville de Badachkan. Fou-Té / commande les troupes impériales contre les deux / Hot-Chom. Ce combat se donna au déclin / du jour. Le grand Hot-Chom y périt ; l’armée / chinoise y fit un butin considerable. C’est / la fin de la conquête de la Petite Buckarie.

Wikidata ID

Q75123837

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