Daniel Rabel
[1] The "Theatrum Florae" was originally published in Paris in 1622, with later editions in 1627 and 1633, and was a collection of botanical illustrations of 69 of the most striking plants then available, and which Rabel had been commissioned to paint for Gaston of Orléans.
These owe a lot to the grotesque caricatures by the German artist Hans Weiditz, and the printmakers Peter Flötner and Erhard Schön.
Two of Rabel's ballets were:[3] In the performance of Les Fées des forêts de Saint-Germain at the Louvre in February 1625, Louis XIII danced in the role of a "valiant fighter".
His widow, Anthoinette Guibourg, married Jacques de Bellville, a friend of the family and the King's ballet master and choreographer.
Like his father, Jean Rabel, he did work for the astronomer Nicolas de Peiresc, a pupil of Galileo's, and is thought to have produced the first important map of the Moon, a year before his death.
"Entrée de la Douairière et de ses dames"
