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First day – Ring joust contested by the King and his knights as Ruggiero and his knights ...

First day – Ring joust contested by the King and his knights as Ruggiero and his knights ...
(Premiere Journée - Course de Bague Dispute par le Roi, et ses chevaliers, representans Roger et les autres chevaliers enchantéz dans l’Isle d’Alcine)
 (1664)
plate 4 from the Les Plaisirs de L'Isle Enchantée, ou les festes, et les divertissments du Roy, à Versailles, Diviséz en trois journeés, et commencéz le 7me jour de May de l’année 1664 (The Pleasures of the Enchanted Isle, or the festivities and amusements of the King at Versailles, divided in three days commencing on the 7th of May 1664) series (1664)

Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
27.4 × 41.3 cm (image) 27.7 × 41.6 cm (plate) 45.3 × 58.5 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Le Blanc 769; Faucheux 318.2 iii/iii; Preaud 917.4 iii/iii
Edition
3rd of 3 states
Printing/Publishing
published by l’Imprimerie Royale, Paris (c. 1673)
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Premiere Journée.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Premiere Journée - Course de Bague Dispute par le Roi, et ses chevaliers, representans Roger et les autres chevaliers enchantéz dans l’Isle d’Alcine
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Israel Silvestre, del. Et scul. parisiis.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: 4
Accession Number
p.183.75-1
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr George Collins Levey, 1879
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display