Claude de Bullion’s Dinner

This engraving by Auguste Trichon, titled “Claude de Bullion’s Dinner,” depicts an aristocratic banquet scene associated with Claude de Bullion, superintendent of finances under Louis XIII. The composition shows richly dressed guests gathered around a table in a decorated interior, evoking power, social rank, and elite forms of sociability in the seventeenth century. Published in Décembre and Alonnier’s illustrated popular dictionary, the image belongs to a tradition of historical illustration intended to make notable figures and episodes of French history accessible to a broad readership.