Courtly life posters & prints

Scenes of a tournament and courtly life from the 'Casa d'Estate', 1388-1400 Italian School

Interior of a Palatial Room, 1622 Bartolomeus van Bassen

The Court Ball Abraham Bosse

The Court Ball, 1604 Martin Pepyn or Pepin

Playing a ball game Italian School

Ferdinand VI and his queen Maria Barbara of Braganza with Scarlatti and the celebrated Italian castrato Farinelli, 1733-57 Jacopo (after) Amigoni

The best poets and minstrels come together at Wartburg and are rewarded by Landgrave Hermann for particularly fine achievements Ferdinand II Piloty

Tasso at the court of Ferrara, c.1630-90 Mattia (1613-99) Preti

Illustration of King Francis II and His Court Anonymous

La Salle des Festins ou Salle du Conseil, c.1688 Etienne Allegrain

La Salle des Festins ou Salle du Conseil, c.1688 Etienne Allegrain

Dancing Ladies, Tang Dynasty, 618-907 School Chinese

Two Fools, c.1600 Netherlandish School

Une Scene Galante Henry Andrews

Fete Champetre Dirck Hals

Henri II Giving the Chain of the Order of Saint-Michel to Gaspard de Saulx Count of Tavannes Nicolas Guy Brenet

St. Helena and the Miracle of the True Cross Simon Marmion

Two Elephants Fighting in a Courtyard Before Muhammad Shah, c. 1730-40 Nainsukh (attributed to)

Don Juan de Calabazas, after Velazquez, 1879 John Singer Sargent

The Swing, 1730 Nicolas Lancret

Princess Louisa Maria Stuart Francois de Troy

Princess Marie Adélaïde of France Jean-Marc Nattier

Courtly gathering in a park, c.1712/13 Jean Antoine Watteau

A couple and a lute player. Detail of the prodigal child in courtesans. Flemish School

Princely ascetic in the forest visited by ladies, c. 1760 Unknown

The lady at the Palais de la Reine, engraved by Pietro Antonio Martini 1777 Jean Michel the Younger (after) Moreau

The Lady's Knight David Wilkie Wynfield

The Elvetham Entertainment of 1593-94 English School

Tsarevna's House Mikhail Petrovich Klodt

Neptune and Amphitrite Abraham Jansz. van

A Prince begging water from women at a well, Mughal, c.1720 Indian School

Javanese court official Java Indonesia Anonymous

Womens Festival on the Bosphorus, 1737 Jean-Baptiste Vanmour

Large Hall in the Prague Hradschin Castle Anonymous

Vow of the Pheasant, Philip the Good and Isabella at the Feast of the Pheasant in Lille in 1454 Anonymous

The Coronation of Marie de Medici, 1622. Peter Paul Rubens