The jousting match at the Hôtel des Tournelles in Paris in 1559, in which Henri II of France loses his life. Etching by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
- Perrissin, J. (Jean), 1536?-1611?
- Date:
- [1570?]
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- 42593i
- Part of:
- Quarante tableaux, ou Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les guerres, massacres, et troubles advenus en France en ces dernières années. Le tout recueilly selon le témoignage de ceux qui ont esté en personne, & qui les ont veues, lesquels sont pourtraits à la vérité.
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[Geneva?] : [Jean de Laon?], [1570?]
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1 print : etching, with engraving
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Decursorium in quo Rex Henricus i. mortifero vulnere sauciatur, die Iunii. 1559. Henricus rex consiliata pace cum rege Hispaniarum: filiae quam illi uxorem desponderat, sororisque Margaritae ... Perrissim fecit 1570
References note
A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, Paris 1835-1871, vol. VI, pp. 42-69; vol. XI (by G. Duplessis), pp. 256-281
A. Linzeler and J. Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle, Paris 1932-1935, 1938, vol. 2, pp. 37-53
Philip Benedict, Lawrence M. Bryant, and Kristen B. Neuschel, 'Graphic history: what readers knew and were taught in the Quarante tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel', French historical studies, 28 (2005), 175-229
Philip Benedict, Graphic history: the "Wars, massacres and troubles" of Tortorel and Perrissin, Geneva 2007
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Wellcome Collection 42593i
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