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Le Jeune home possedé du Diable, son nom est Buth

Drawing
1726 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Picart, Bernard (artist)

Drawing, `Le Jeune home possedé du Diable, son nom est Buth', 1726, by Bernard Picart


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleLe Jeune home possedé du Diable, son nom est Buth (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Brush and pen and ink, and grey wash, over pencil, on laid paper
Brief description
Drawing, `Le Jeune home possedé du Diable, son nom est Buth', 1726, by Bernard Picart
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.3cm
  • Width: 21.9cm
Styles
French School
Orientalism
Marks and inscriptions
Signed and dated B. Picart fecit 1726, inscribed with title, blind-stamped T.L
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Object history
According to Rodney Searight: - `The pair [SD.803-SD.804], bt (Mrs) Kate Agius (Mrs Stone), ex Sotheby's, July 1973 £155'.
Historical context
SD.803 and SD.804 are illustrations for the artist's Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, Représentés par des Figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picart, &c., 8 tom., Amsterdam, 1723-43. This image is reversed in Cérémonies, Tome Second, 1728, facing p.354, and in Histoire Générale des Cérémonies [...], Paris, 1741, Tome VI, following p.66.
The initials T.L. refer to the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence. See Lugt, 2445. For a comparison of images in Cérémonies with those in J. Le Hay, Recueil De Cent Estampes, 1714, (plates after J.B. Vanmour), see Searight Archive. See also SD.1079, after Vanmour.
Place depicted
Tibet
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SD.803

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Record createdMarch 23, 2008
Record URL
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