Baquet Collection

Tilting at a ring under a basin of water, 17th century
Tilting at a ring under a basin of water, jeu de bague or jeu du baquet. Popular game at village festivals. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill

Mesmer conducting a baquet in Paris
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 - 1815), German physician and hypnotist, treating patients in a group, in a session which he called a baquet (named after the large vessel in the middle of the room)

Mesmer Baquet Moral
Mesmers baquet-moral does for the soul what his regular baquet does for the body : vices are eradicated, virtues inculcated, thanks to the powerful forces it exerts

Mesmer Baquet
Mesmers octagonal baquet, showing how eight patients could sit round it and be cured of 8 different ailments simultaneously, from hydropsis to the stone

Mesmers Baquet / Figuier
Mesmers baquet, Paris Date: circa 1780

Androgynous Banquets
Scene depicting the Final Song and the Union of Brothers and Sisters chain. Date: 1890s

Mesmer Homme Baquet
Five minutes of treatment by the baquet-homme suffice to produce wonderful effects on an ailing body thanks to the forces emitted by the eight bottles round the octagon

Mesmers Baquet
Mesmers baquet, Paris

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