HERMES, Paris. Silk twill square model Les fêtes du Roi soleil sur fond rose, after Michel Duchene. Size: 90 x 90 cm. (small stains) This square was inspired by engravings by Silvestre and Chauveau, colored by Jacques Bailly and illustrating a text by Charles Perrault, who celebrated the birth of the Dauphin in 1662 with a carrousel featuring "the most renowned nations": Roman page, Persian and Turkish squires, Indian trumpeters with their retinue of estafiers and grooms... And the Duc de Guise as "Roy Amériquain".