Dame Grecque, dans son Apartement, plate 68 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

After Jean Baptiste Vanmour French
 Publisher Jacques le Hay
Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin I French

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This print is from a set of 100 plates representing different nations of the Levant. They are based on small paintings commissioned from the Flemish painter Jean Baptiste Vanmour by the Marquis de Ferriol (1652-1718), the French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1699-1710. Upon his return to Paris, Ferriol partnered with the publisher Jacques Le Hay to have the set engraved for publication. The set was widely disseminated throughout Europe and was in part responsible for the vogue for turquerie, or European images of Turkish life, a form of exoticism popular in the rococo period.

Dame Grecque, dans son Apartement, plate 68 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant", After Jean Baptiste Vanmour (French, Valenciennes 1671–1737 Istanbul (Constantinople)), Etching and engraving

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