Accession number
PML 2865.2
Creator
Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664.
Published
Paris : Henry Le Gras, libraire, au 3.e pilier de la Grande Salle du Palais, [1644]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
At the command Mazarin, Jean Desmarets and Stefano della Bella designed and engraved in 1644 four educational games for education of the young Louis XIV: the game of kings of France, the game of the famous queens, gambling fables and the game of geography.
Description
1 set of 52 cards : engraving ; 15 x 9.5 cm.
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased from J.O. Wright, Dec., 1887; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Black gilt-tooled morocco by Gruel.
Classification
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Department