Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1519
Category Archives: French
Jean Hamon 1618-1687
French doctor and writer of many works on medical and religious subjects
Artist: Dequevauviller
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1475
René Descartes 1596-1650 French philosopher
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of France, he spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces.
Date:1835
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2445
Louis-Alexandre Berthier 1753-1815
Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram, was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of War of France and was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1804.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:534
Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine 1558-1602
Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur and of Penthièvre was a French soldier, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a prominent member of the Catholic League, who fought for Breton political independence from the House of Bourbon.
Date:1558
Size 16 x 21.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:199
Philippe I, Duke of Orleans 1640-1701
Philippe, Duke of Orléans was the younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His older brother was the famous “Sun King”, Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660
Artist: Peter Aubry
Date:
Size 11 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1792
Gaspard III de Coligny, duc de Châtillon 1584-1646
Gaspard III de Coligny, duc de Châtillon, was a French Huguenot, who served under Louis XIII, and was appointed Marshal of France in 1622. He was described as “a mediocre general, but absolutely loyal”
Artist: Buchhorn
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1544
Prince Henri d’Orleans, Duke of Aumale 1822-1897
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of King Louis-Philippe I of the French and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily and used the title Duke of Aumale
Artist: Winterhalter
Date:
Size 7.5 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1706
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac 1597-1654
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author in Baroque Précieuses style, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of the Académie française.
Artist: After Mellan
Date:1654
Size 10 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:630
Clémence Isaure
A quasi-legendary medieval figure credited with founding or restoring the Acadèmia dels Jòcs Florals or Academy of the Floral Games. She is supposed to have left a legacy to fund awards in the form of gold and silver flowers that the city would award annually to the best poets.
Artist: Richomme
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1465