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AFTER ETIENNE LOYS
Joseph Barcellon, paumier du roi, 1753
photogravure, published at the Hyde Park Gallery, London, November 1st, 1903 (slight split along upper plate mark)
30 x 23½in. (76 x 59.5cm.), framed and glazed.
Exhibited: 'An Exhibition of Tennis and Rackets', The Queen's Club, 9-17 November 2004, no. 108. The original painting by Etienne Loys is at the Wimbledon Tennis Museum.
Although this photogravure is titled 'Joseph Barcellon', it actually shows his father, Guillaume Barcellon, who is referred to as "Joseph Barcellon, Pére" (Noel and Clark, A History of Tennis, 1924, p.65). Guillaume Barcellon became paumier du roi to Louis XV in 1753, the year Loys painted this portrait. According to Robert Lukin in A Treatise on Tennis (London, 1822), Barcellon "almost invariably gave a side-wall Service; and if the Service were critical, the Adversary could do little more than toss it, or play it towards the low wall under the Galleries, called by the French 'la grande Batterie', in which case, by standing forward, he was always prepared to Volley it, and seldom failed to do so with the best effect" (p.80). He trained his two sons Joseph, who became world champion in 1785, and Pierre, author of Règles et principes de paume (1800).
Joseph Barcellon, paumier du roi, 1753
photogravure, published at the Hyde Park Gallery, London, November 1st, 1903 (slight split along upper plate mark)
30 x 23½in. (76 x 59.5cm.), framed and glazed.
Exhibited: 'An Exhibition of Tennis and Rackets', The Queen's Club, 9-17 November 2004, no. 108. The original painting by Etienne Loys is at the Wimbledon Tennis Museum.
Although this photogravure is titled 'Joseph Barcellon', it actually shows his father, Guillaume Barcellon, who is referred to as "Joseph Barcellon, Pére" (Noel and Clark, A History of Tennis, 1924, p.65). Guillaume Barcellon became paumier du roi to Louis XV in 1753, the year Loys painted this portrait. According to Robert Lukin in A Treatise on Tennis (London, 1822), Barcellon "almost invariably gave a side-wall Service; and if the Service were critical, the Adversary could do little more than toss it, or play it towards the low wall under the Galleries, called by the French 'la grande Batterie', in which case, by standing forward, he was always prepared to Volley it, and seldom failed to do so with the best effect" (p.80). He trained his two sons Joseph, who became world champion in 1785, and Pierre, author of Règles et principes de paume (1800).
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