EditorialMercury and Psyche Mercury and Psyche, copy after Adriaen de Vries, Mercury and psyche, bronze with greenish patina. Signed: ADRIANUS FRIES HAGENSIS BATAVUS FECIT (ON FOOT). Watering mark: Fondu par L. Gasne.Paris (on foot)., L. Gasne, Paris, c. 1890 -...
EditorialBoys playing the game of cheval fondu, leap-frog or horseplay. From an illustration by Jean-Henri Marlet from le Bon Genie, 1826. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialFive boys playing the game of piggyback horseriding, le cheval fondu. From an illustration by Francois Boucher engraved by Huquier, 1765. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairi...