Caption:
A game of checkers in Cafe de la Regence, Palais Royal. The original showed chess players, including composer and chess master Philidor (seated left) and his tutor Legall de Kermeur, holding umbrella, dating it to pre-French Revolution. From a lithograph by Louis Leopold Boilly. Une Partie des Dames. Lithograph from Henry Rene dAllemagnes Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.