The Assaut, or, Fencing Match: which took place at Carlton House, on the 9th of April 1787, between Mademoiselle La Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont. and Monsieur de Saint George.
by Thomas Rowlandson, after the painting by Victor Marie Picot
1787
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, 787.00.00.15+
Full title: The Assaut, or, Fencing Match: which took place at Carlton House, on the 9th of April 1787, between Mademoiselle La Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont. and Monsieur de Saint George. In the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Several of the Nobility & many eminent Fencing Masters of London.
Description from the Yale catalogue:
A 1787 fencing match between a man and a woman in the elegant rooms of Carlton House, London. In the audience stands the Prince of Wales who had arranged this fencing demonstration between Mademoiselle d'Eon (right), and Monsieur de Saint George (left). Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728–1810), known as the Chevalier d'Eon, who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. The fencer on the left is Joseph de Bologne de Saint-Georges or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799), who was the son of a wealthy plantation owner in the French West Indies colony of Guadeloupe and one of his African slaves named Anne.
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