Le Combat d'Arcul

circa 1767-1774

Jacques Aliamet

Artist, French, 1726 - 1788

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 57.9 × 93.5 cm (22 13/16 × 36 13/16 in.)
    image: 51.6 × 90.8 cm (20 5/16 × 35 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.1684

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Associated Artworks

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Le combat de Khurungui

Jacques Aliamet

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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.s Dio.s Attiret Soc. Jesu, del. 1765.; in plate, below image, at center: C.N. Cochin filius Dirrex.; in plate, below image, at left: J. Aliamet Sculp.; in graphite, at lower left: No. 15 B-24173; in graphite, at lower right: 11; verso: none
-in brown ink, on sheet affixed affixed to opposite page: No. 2. [crossed out with 15 written in graphite] Pan-Ti, envoyé par S. M. Imp. pour installer / Amour-Sana, & commandent 150 mille / hommes des troupes de l’empire, surprend, / à la faveur d’un brouillard, Ta-Ona-Tsi, rival / d’Amour-Sana, & fait prisonnieres 1000 familles / sans perdre un seul des siens. Année 1755.

Wikidata ID

Q75123873

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