Content: Artist's name and French title supplied by vendor.
Funding: Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Acquisition: Purchase; Paul Prouté, 2003.
Biographical/Historical: Held in June 1662, Le Grand Carrousel was a three-day series of entertainments organized by Louis XIV of France to celebrate the birth of the dauphin. Its noble participants were divided into five quadrilles named after national groups selected for their prestige or exoticism: Romans (led by the king himself), Persians, Turks, Indians, and Native Americans. The riders and horses in each group were elaborately costumed, and the festivities, often accompanied by music, allowed them to show off their horsemanship in processions, pageants, and games of skill.
Biographical/Historical: Double-page plate from Courses de testes et de bague faittes par le roy et par les princes et seigneurs de sa cour, en l'année 1662. The book, commissioned by Louis XIV, included text by Charles Perrault (best remembered for his fairy tales) and illustrations by Israël Silvestre and François Chaveau.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 print : etching, black and white ; 56 x 81 cm., plate mark 54 x 76 cm.

Abstract

Depiction of an equestrian display presented in the amphitheatre in front of the Tuileries Palace in Paris, on the second day of Le Grand Carrousel.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 806953133
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15857010
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3a590ad0-ac0d-0133-8bd2-00505686a51c

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1670

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Decurso ad Annulum Turmarumque in Amphitheatro stationes dispositæ. Dies altera" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1670. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a590ad0-ac0d-0133-8bd2-00505686a51c

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1670). Decurso ad Annulum Turmarumque in Amphitheatro stationes dispositæ. Dies altera Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a590ad0-ac0d-0133-8bd2-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Decurso ad Annulum Turmarumque in Amphitheatro stationes dispositæ. Dies altera" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a590ad0-ac0d-0133-8bd2-00505686a51c

Wikipedia citation

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