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Bernard Lepicié, after Jean-Baptiste Pater, ‘Piramide d'Ailes et de cuisses de poulets élevée sur l'assiette du Destin’

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Details

Country House
Petworth House
Title(s)
‘Piramide d'Ailes et de cuisses de poulets élevée sur l'assiette du Destin’
Date
c.1730/35
Medium and support
Etching and engraving
Artists
Bernard Lepicié, after Jean-Baptiste Pater
Catalogue Number
PT23

Description

From a set of sixteen plates representing scenes from Scarron's Roman Comique. Published in Paris

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