A French noble woman and fop playing a game of chess, 1686. Another lady works on a piece of embroidery on the sofa. Le Jeu des Echecs. Lithograph after Nicolas Arnoult from Henry Rene d’Allemagne’s Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

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