Promenade of the Ambassadors of Tipu Sultan in the Park of Saint-Cloud
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Contemporary accounts of the Mysore embassy often remarked on the crowds that mobbed the delegation wherever it went. Here, the fashionable Parisians turned out to see them are dressed in British-made muslin, a pointed nod to the embassy’s informal mission to bypass Britain by negotiating direct trade with France. However, Tipu Sultan’s formal proposal for aid to remove the British from Mysore was ill timed. On the eve of the Revolution, neither military nor trade agreements between the two powers were feasible.
Artwork Details
- Title: Promenade of the Ambassadors of Tipu Sultan in the Park of Saint-Cloud
- Artist: Charles-Eloi Asselin (active 1765–1804)
- Date: 1788
- Medium: Gouache on paper, mounted on canvas
- Dimensions: Unframed: 26 × 38 3/4 in. (66 × 98.5 cm)
Framed: 32 11/16 × 45 1/4 in. (83 × 115 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Cité de la Céramique–Sèvres et Limoges (Mp51893N01)
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts