Rôles et fonctions de la gravure dans le Mercure galant quelle image de l’Amérique?

Abstract

The commercial success of the Mercure galant and the financial support of the Dauphin enabled Jean Donneau de Visé to invest in the production of engravings as early as 1678. In addition to musical pieces, enigmas and other fashion plates, the royalist periodical collection includes five engravings illustrating battles in the Caribbean colonies. From this limited corpus, this article examines how the image works to ensure the continued existence of the reign and reflects on the place of engravings in the Mercure galant and on the Parisian print market in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.