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Jeu de paume Francais (epoque de Louis XIII) – Antique Print

Jeu de paume Francais (epoque de Louis XIII), [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Jeu de paume Francais (epoque de Louis XIII), [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique engraving captures Jeu de paume Francais (epoque de Louis XIII) in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Jeu de paume Francais (epoque de Louis XIII)

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The engraving shows a game of jeu de paume, the court tennis played in France long before the modern lawn game took its name. Its caption card places the scene in the reign of Louis XIII (1610 to 1643), and the subject was later used as the frontispiece for Jean-Adrien Jusserand's study of sports and games. The game was played with the bare hand or a racket in enclosed courts, and it was a favorite pastime of the French court, so the print offers a useful glimpse of aristocratic leisure in the early seventeenth century.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Jusserand Les Sports et Jeux, frontispiece. No reference copies. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: France--Hist.--ca. 1640; Sports--Tennis.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan858 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108707

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