Artist: Copy of Crispijn de Passe the Younger (c. 1594-1670)
Title: King Louis XIII of France jousting
Date: after 1623
School: French/Dutch, 17th-century
Medium: engraving and etching
Dimensions: 198 x 297mm (image), 303 x 360mm (support)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: numbered in the image bottom left <<Figure 46 3 partie>>, numbered in pencil lower right <<39>>
Condition: fair condition, printed on laid paper, two sheets joined together, minor staining
Description: A good copy of an illustration to Antoine de Pluvinel’s Le Maneige Royal …, Paris, 1623, second edition retitled L’Instruction du Roy en l’Exercice de Monter a Cheval, Paris, 1625 with plates re-ordered and renumbered. Figure 46 ordering changed from 2nd to 3rd part. Image printed without the elaborate framing of the original (see image below)
Reference: Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts c. 1450-1700, vol. XVI, 175 copy
Provenance: Naples, Mercato delle pulci
