![]() ![]() The lady in the middle of the picture looks like she might have just hit the ball with one hand and missed the hoop from about three feet away. His “Croquet Players” of 1865 has four ladies playing croquet while two men and one lady appear to be bystanders. ![]() Homer’s 1866 painting “A Game of Croquet” has one woman concentrating on holding onto her hat and the other about to hit the ball, but she seems to be holding the mallet with only one hand. He is bending down near the lady in red in the middle of the painting, pointing at the ball, and also to the mallet which he is holding in his other hand, as if telling her how to hit a ball with a stick. In “Croquetspiel” (spiel is German for play), painted in 1864, he portrays three ladies, and one gentleman who appears to be showing them how to play. Only the women in his paintings are playing croquet. US landscape painter Winslow Homer, for example, seemed to use croquet to show women’s alleged weakness and ineptitude. In art, painters depicted croquet in various ways. It is portrayed widely in both art and literature, especially during its heyday in the second half of the 19 th century, but also in more recent times. It was introduced into England from France in the 1850s and soon became a popular game played around the country by middle and upper class ladies and gentlemen. (originally published to Helium writing site, now gone)Ĭroquet is a lawn game where players hit balls through hoops with a mallet. ![]()
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