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The Croquet Game (French: 'La Partie de Croquet') is an 1873 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. It shows a group of people playing croquet , a very fashionable game at that time.
[2]: 12–13 Although croquet satisfied three criteria, it had been thought to have an entrant from Belgium, Marcel Haëntjens, [2]: 27 (Haëntjens is a Flemish name) and thus have been an international competition. Haëntjens is now known to have been from France, [3] as were the other croquet players. Only one paying spectator attended the event.
Roque (/ r oʊ k / ROHK) is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, [1] it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing croquet from the previous games.
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Leon Wyczółkowski, A Game of Croquet (1892–1895), National Museum, Warsaw. Croquet (UK: / ˈ k r oʊ k eɪ,-k i / or US: / k r oʊ ˈ k eɪ /) is a sport [1] [2] which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. [3]
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