MANNER OF NICOLAS de LARMESSIN II (1634-1694) ‘Les Costumes Grotesques Et Les Metiers’
a suite of eight drawings, each showing a stylised character, usually itinerant workers, merchants or street vendors, in the manner of Arcimboldo, the figure is portrayed in the accoutrement of his particular trade or occupation, with the clothing, hats, etc. constructed out of the tools from his trade, ink on Islamic polished or burnished paper, some with Persian or Hindi/Devanagari script visible within the paper, each 33.5cm x 23.8cm (8)
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Nicolas de Larmessin II was a seventeenth-century artist and engraver. The son of a bookseller, he hailed from an artistic family and may have been employed by his older brother and sister-in-law. Throughout his career, de Larmessin II conceived numerous “grotesque costumes,” possibly made at the behest of French engraver, Francois Jollain.
