Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (French, 1757 - 1810). "Character from Constantinople",Encyclopedie Des Voyages. Engraving on paper.

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JACQUES GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR (France, 1757 - 1810). "Character of Constantinople", Encyclopedie Des Voyages. Engraving on paper. Size: 16 x 11,5 cm (print); 23,5 x 18 cm (paper). Engraving in which a character belonging to the Ottoman Empire is shown, as can be appreciated by the inscription located in the upper area and by the clothes of the protagonist. The work is part of the book Encyclopedie Des Voyages, which was published in 1796. Grasset produced numerous works in which he captured popular types as a chronicle of the society of the time. Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur was a French writer and diplomat. He came to study at the Jesuits of Sainte-Barbe in Paris in 1764, then began to follow the diplomatic career of his father and brother. Having worked for ten years as vice-consul in the commission under his father, he became vice-consul in Hungary and then in Cairo. The writer George Sand quotes Grasset de Saint Sauveur in his autobiographical travel account entitled "A Winter in Majorca", published in 1841. He published between 1784 and 1812, about twenty books, often light or illustrated.