Jean Noblet Tarot
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[edit] Description
This version of the Marseille Tarot was published in Paris circa 1650 by master card-maker Jean Noblet.
An original, and the only known, specimen of the Noblet deck is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris. In that specimen, all of the trumps and courts are present and most of the pips. There are five missing cards: i.e., the VI to X of the Swords suit.
The Noblet deck is known for the title LAMORT (Death) on the XIII trump, whereas most of the other Tarot de Marseille decks have the card numbered but unnamed, e.g., Jean Dodal Tarot (circa 1701) and Nicolas Conver Tarot (circa 1761).
The Noblet deck is also known for its Fool card that has graphic attention to detail in the private parts of the Fool. As well, the animal in the Noblet deck's Fool card appears, to some tarotists, to resemble a feline more closely than a canine. In other early versions of the Tarot de Marseille, the image of the animal depicted in the Fool card is such that there is less consensus as to whether the animal is a canine or is a feline.
[edit] Creator(s)
This deck is attributed to Jean Noblet.
However, Jean-Claude Flornoy is of the view that certain cards from the deck, e.g., the Devil, World and Wheel of Fortune cards, appear to be the work of a student rather than a master. [1]
[edit] Publishing details
[edit] Original deck
The original deck was published circa 1650 in Paris.
[edit] Photoreproductions
No photoreproduction versions of this deck have even been made.
[edit] Restorations
- Jean Noblet Tarot handmade by Jean-Claude and Roxanne Flornoy (trumps only)
- Jean Noblet Tarot restored in a complete 78-card deck, with the 6-10 of Swords (missing in the only known copy) re-created by Jean-Claude Flornoy
[edit] Deck creation and/or publication process
Woodblock process
[edit] Creator's comments
None extant
[edit] Creator's website
Not applicable
[edit] Reviews
- Jean Noblet Tarot, restored by Jean-Claude Flornoy, by Robert Mealing in the Association for Tarot Studies Newsletter;
- Jean Noblet Tarot, review by Bonnie Cehovet on Aeclectic Tarot
- Jean Noblet Tarot, Jean-Claude Flornoy, review by Janet Boyer on 'The Tarot Channel'
