VISUAL DATABASE
List of images (by date) with entries on the RTS site (Date, Artist(s), Subject/Title) and Collection/Copyright.
The “Gallery” Database will have all images relevant to the history of tennis, cross-referenced with the Bibliographic and Court Register entries. If you would like to submit entries please contact Frederika on frederikaadam@hotmail.com
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Paintings
1530-60 David and Bathsheba Flemish Paintings
1535-40 Herri met de Bles, David and Bathsheba, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
1535 Lucas Gassel, David and Bathsheba, International Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport, RI
16c Lucas Gassel, David and Bathsheba, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
16c Lucas Gassel, David and Bathsheba , De Jonckheere Gallery, Paris
1535 Lucas Gassel, David and Bathsheba, Sold at Christie’s, 2005
Lucas Gassel, David and Bathsheba, MCC, Lord’s, London, UK
c. 1550 Boy with Racquet (Sotheby’s 1995 “Locko Park”)
c. 1550 Boy with Racquet (Sotheyby’s 2014 “Earls of Warwick”)
1607 Portrait of Federico Ubaldo della Rovere Age 2
Andreas Ruhl
Jan van Amstel
Anonymous Italian, Painting with chivalrous pastimes, (c.1570), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Justus Utens (d.1609), Series of 14/17 Medici Villas[1] commissioned by Ferdinando I de’Medici (1599-1602), Palazzo Pitti and Museo di Firenze com’era.
Alessandro Vitali, Federico Ubaldo Della Rovere (1607). Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi, Lucca, Italy
Child with Racquet, Niort?[2]
Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662), A Jeu de Paume Before a Country Palace (Pallone) (c.1614), J. Paul Getty Museum.[3]
Jan Brueghel, Allegory of Human Life (c. 1618), Galleria Sabauda, Turin, Italy
Cornelis de Vos, Girl with racquet (17c)[4]
Follower of Caravaggio, The Death of Hyacinth (17c), Musee d’Art Thomas Henry, Cherbourg
Follower of Caravaggio, The Death of Hyacinth (17c), Private Collection.
Nausicaa holding a bat with ball on the steps. Michele Desubleo, Ulysses and Nausicaa, c. 1670. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
Joseph Barcellon, (1753), AELTC Museum, London
Raymond Masson, Private Collection, UK
Follower of Boilly, The Carrier Family (18c)
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (1695-1736), Battle in the tennis court (“ le tripot”), Potsdam Sans-Souci, Germany.
Gabriele Bella, Gioco della Palla, Venice, Palazzo Querini Stampaglia, Venice.
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Death of Hyacinth (1752-53), Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid.
Boilly, Versailles Jeu de Paume
1791 Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath (Le Serment du Jeu de Paume), Versailles
Frescoes/Paintings in situ
Giandomenico Tiepolo, Acrobats (c.1796), Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice
Giovanni Antonio Molineri, Death of Hyacinth (c.1636), Palazzo Taffini d’Acceglio, Savigliano
Pirro Ligorio, Salone dei Giochi, Castello Estense, Ferrara
Object d’Art
Auteri and G Drexel Biddle, Real Tennis Player, Bronze
Glass with a tennis player related to the Carrier family
Drawings
Workshop of Lucas Gassel, Helmond (c.1540), Louvre[5]
Germain Le Manier?, Portrait of Charles IX, Age 2 (1552), Musee Conde, Chateau de Chantilly
Giovan Battista Bracelli, Capriccio: Tennis players (1607) from Bizzarrie di varie figure 50 etchings dedicated to Don Pietro de’Medici
Adriaan van de Venne, tennis players (outside) (1626), British Museum
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, tennis racquet hanging up, (c.1675)
Prints
Guillaume de la Perriere, Le Theatre des bons egins (1539); tennis players (1554)
Sambucus, Emblemata (1566)
Griolamo Mercuriale, De arte gymnastica libri sex (Venetiis: apud Iuntas, 1573) – follis pila (large inflated ball game)
Griolamo Mercuriale, De arte gymnastica libri sex (Venetiis: apud Iuntas, 1573) – Trigonalis pila (small ball game with three players)
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Les Plus Excellents Bastiments de France (1576-1579), engravings of 30 palaces including 21 tennis courts (the 120 vellum drawings survive in the British Museum (c.1560-70)).
Zsamboki, Anvers (1576)[6]
Hans von Aachen – Raphael Sadeler, Francia ()
Otto van Veen – Pieter de Jode the Elder, Vir fortis et bonus, Cupidines malas (The Good and Bad Passions), engraving ()
Maarten de Vos – Hieronymus Wierix, Spirituale Christiani Militis Certamen, engraving ()
Maarten de Vos – Raphael Sadeler, Amor (1592), engraving
Tubingen (1607)[7]
Crispijn van de Passe from Nieuwen Jeucht Spieghel Strasbourg (1607[8] or 1617?)
Sinnepoppen, Tennis racquet “Ten vangt geen vis.” (1614)
Jacques Callot, The Miracle of Saint Mansuy, etching (c. 1625)
Charles Hulpeau, Le jeu royal de la paume, Paris (1632), title page.
Galileo Galilei, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, Florence, Giovan Battista Landini (1632), title page.
Adriaen van de Venne, Performance in a tennis court, the Hague (1635)
Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662), Hondius, Es muss ein ieder ein par narren schuhen vertretten, in Jacob Cats, Spiegel van den ouden en nieuwen tijdt (1632).
James, Duke of York (1641)
Domenico Parasacchi, Fontana del Capo Corritore del Vaticano nell’apartamento anticho in Raccolta delle principali fontane dell’inclitta citta di Roma, Roma, G.B. De Rossi (1647)
Johannes Amos Comenius, (1656)
Jan Van de Velde II, The Conceited Nobleman, Amsterdam (1662)
Mutus Lieber, La Rochelle (1677) [ed Geneve, 1702] plate 14
Francois-Alexandre-Pierre de Garsault, The racquet, strings and balls, Art du paumier-raquetier (1767)
Francois-Alexandre-Pierre de Garsault, The hall and gallery, Art du paumier-raquetier (1767)
Photography
1843 Adamson & Hill, Mr Laing or Laine (1843), National Galleries, Scotland
1923 Baroness Wentworth, Crabbet Park
Illuminated Manuscripts
Frans Getijdenboek, Bodleian, hand/roof ball 16c
Valerius Maximus, Market place hand/roof ball and chess, British Library
Books
Jan van den Berghe, Dat Kaetspel ghemoraliseert, treatise on tennis rules (written 1431; published 1477)
Erasmus, Sport De lusu (1522)
1555 Antonio Scaino da Salo, Trattato del giuoco della palla (Venice) [External link to digital facsimile, Museo Galileo, Florence]
Florinus (1719)
Garsault (1767)
Manevieux
Smith Travers Treatise on Tennis (1875)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giusto_Utens accessed 10 July, 2015.
[2] Plate II, de Luze, Collection Theophile Mercie, Niort.
[3] http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/720/adriaen-van-de-venne-a-jeu-de-paume-before-a-country-palace-dutch-about-1614/ Accessed 9 July, 2015.
[4] Figure 33, De Bondt (2006)
[5] The composition of the Louvre drawing is closest to the painted version in the Wadsworth Atheneum which has been attributed to Lucas Gassel. De Bondt (2006), p. 193. See also Luc Serck on Henri Bles (Gardner Museum, Boston) in Jacques Toussaint (2000), pp. 158-65.
[6] Figure 27, De Luze (1933)
[7] Plate VII, De Luze (1933)
[8] Plate VII, De Luze (1933)