The jousting match at the Hôtel des Tournelles in Paris in 1559, in which Henri II of France loses his life. Etching by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.

[Geneva?] : [Jean de Laon?], [1570?]

1 print : etching, with engraving

Decursorium in quo Rex Henricus i. mortifero vulnere sauciatur, die Iunii. 1559. Henricus rex consiliata pace cum rege Hispaniarum: filiae quam illi uxorem desponderat, sororisque Margaritae ... Perrissim fecit 1570

A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, Paris 1835-1871, vol. VI, pp. 42-69; vol. XI (by G. Duplessis), pp. 256-281

A. Linzeler and J. Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle, Paris 1932-1935, 1938, vol. 2, pp. 37-53

Philip Benedict, Lawrence M. Bryant, and Kristen B. Neuschel, 'Graphic history: what readers knew and were taught in the Quarante tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel', French historical studies, 28 (2005), 175-229

Philip Benedict, Graphic history: the "Wars, massacres and troubles" of Tortorel and Perrissin, Geneva 2007

Wellcome Collection 42593i