Allegorical scene showing theatre games, Les Jeux du Theatre, 17th century. Velvet brocade curtains opening onto a stage with a Roman amphitheatre, musical instruments, fool's baubles, marottes, flags and torches above. From a design for a Gobelins tapestry for King Louis XIV, MS 2293, Bibliotheque Imperiale. France, XVIIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Franz Kellerhoven after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858. Chromolithograph by Franz Kellerhoven after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappo


Allegorical scene showing theatre games, Les Jeux du Theatre, 17th century. Velvet brocade curtains opening onto a stage with a Roman amphitheatre, musical instruments, fool's baubles, marottes, flags and torches above. From a design for a Gobelins tapestry for King Louis XIV, MS 2293, Bibliotheque Imperiale. France, XVIIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Franz Kellerhoven after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858. Chromolithograph by Franz Kellerhoven after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.


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