Bernard Picart (1673-1733) - Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

Religious ceremonies and customs of all the peoples of the world, 1722
Beautiful copper engraving by Bernard Picart, it is divided into four small scenes which show a "savage" trying to join his mistress.

Bernard Picart, born June 11, 1673 in Paris where he lived on rue Saint-Jacques, settled in 1711 in Amsterdam where he lived in Kalverstraat and where he died on May 8, 1733, is a French designer and engraver (etcher and burinist) . . It did not take long for him to make a brilliant reputation as an engraver and as a designer. As skillful in handling the chisel as the point, he executed a host of small subjects, in which he skillfully combined the two processes, and where we admired a fertility of invention and a skill of hand which made him compare to Sébastien Leclerc.
Good condition, slight foxing on the margins.