A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.

  • Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
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A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[1786]

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1 print : etching ; platemark 42.8 x 34.9 cm

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Le négromantien. Peint par Le Prince, Peintre du Roi et Conseiller en son Académie Royale, 1775. Gravé par Helman, de l'Académie des Arts de Lille en Flandre, 1785

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Yves Bruand, Michèle Hébert, and Yves Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome XI, Paris 1970, p. 286, no. 82 ("82. [Le Négromantien, d'après Leprince.] H. Vienne, no. 58. — Estampe annoncée au Journal de Paris le 18 janvier 1786: Prix: 6 livres. Pendant du Médecin clairvoyant (voir ci-dessus no. 24).")

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