François Chauveau Tuileries Tournament Etching, Stipatores, Equus Ductitius, Agasones, Americani, from 'Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662' (Grand Carrousel) 1662–70, Restrike from a series of 106 plates by Israel Silvestre and François Chauveau, with text by Charles Perrault, published in 1670. The series depicts jousting festivities given by Louis XIV at the Tuileries, June 5, 1662, in which nobles dressed as Persians, Americans, Romans and Turks, measures 16 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches, black and gold toned wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. Prior to the royal court moving to Versailles, a festival was held by Louis XIV at Tuileries Palace in Paris in 1662 as a way of celebrating the birth of his son, Louis, le Grande Dauphin, the previous year. After a procession past monuments in the streets of Paris the entourage entered the