2-704-306 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Kings and noblemen playing cards, 15th century, (1849). 'Le revers du Jeu des Suisses', (The other side of the Swiss game, or the Card Game of the Kings and the Pope), anti-Swiss propaganda and one of the first examples of satirical art, based on the metaphor of politics as a game. Depicted are: 1. Le Roi de France (Louis XII), 2. Le Suisse, 3. Le Duc de Venise, 4. Le Pape (Pope Leo X), 5. L'Empereur (Maximilian I), 6. Le Roi d'Espagne, 7. Le Roi d'Angleterre, 8. Le Duc de Wurtemberg, 9. Le Comte Palatin, 10. Le Seigneur Jean-Jacques Trivulce, 11. Le Duc de Milan le More, 12. Le Duc de Lorraine, 13. Le Duc de Savoie, 14. Le Marquis Montferrat, 15. Dame Marguerite. 19th century illustration after a manuscript in the Bibliotheque de Rouen, France. From Volume 2 of "Le Moyen Age Et La Renaissance", (The Middle Ages and the Renaissance), edited by Paul Lacroix, artistic direction by Ferdinand Seré [Paris, 1849]