Portrait of Louis Henri Duc de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, after Gobert; half-length, looking to the left, holding baton and wearing armour, sash, and the insignia of the Golden Fleece; oval frame; coat of arms with crown and insignia of the orders of St Michel, the Golden Fleece and the Saint-Esprit on the plinth
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Gober
Date:1692
Size 14.5 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1662
Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (6 June 1646 – 2 July 1699) was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She was the fourth of the five famous Mancini sisters, who, along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes.
Subject gender: Female
Artist:
Date:
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:670
Statesman, lawyer, and humanist who, as chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568, was instrumental in the adoption by the French government of a policy of toleration toward the Huguenots.
Artist: Blanchard
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1439
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d’Olivet, Abbot of Olivet was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator. He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française seat 31
Artist: Le Vasseur
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2967
Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis’s mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2338
Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d’Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later at age sixteen.
Engraving by Pierre-Charles Ingouf 1746–1800
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2108
French Roman Catholic priest who founded a number of social and educational institutions, especially while in exile in England, and was a prolific author of pious tracts.
Artist: Adele Jarry de Mancy
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1477
French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva.
Size 6 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1725
Olivier de Serres was a French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d’Agriculture was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century.
Artist: Dequevillier
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1460
French lawyer and statesman. He is best known as the first head of state of the Second Republic, after the collapse of the July Monarchy.
Date:1816
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1165