Details: DE PLUVINEL, ANTOINE; CRISPIN DE PASSE. Engraving for Antoine de Pluvinel's "Le Manège Royal - L'Instruction du Roy, en L'Exercise de Monter a Cheval" Figure 31. Paris: 1623 or later 17th century. Engraving. 13 1/2 x 16 5/8 " on laid paper.

In this fine engraving, Pluvinel instructs the future Louis XIII in horsemanship

Antione de Pluvinel lived from 1555 to 1620. Of gentle birth, he was a courtier to three kings of France: Henry III, Henry IV, and Louis XIII. He studied equitation from an early age, and spent six years as a pupil of the great Giovanni Battista Pignatelli in Napoles (southern Italy). When de Pluvinel returned to France, he opened an academy for young gentlemen at the Faubourg St. Honoré, where the subjects of music, literature, painting, mathematics, and riding were taught. Monsieur de Pluvinel's reputation for honesty and his clarity of method in teaching were such that he was appointed governor to the Dauphin (the future Louis XIII).

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