Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs.
Size 20 x 30 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2954
Category Archives: French
Jean Victor Marie Moreau 1763-1813
French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the United States. He is among the foremost French generals in military history
Size 9.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:523
Pierre de Gondi, 1533-1616. Cardinal, Bishop of Paris
Born in Lyon, he was a brother of Albert de Gondi (two of whose sons, Henri and Jean-François, succeeded Pierre as bishop of Paris) and a protégé of Catherine de Médicis. In turn, he became bishop of Langres (1565), bishop of Paris (1570), chancellor and grand almoner to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France.
Artist: Claude Duflos
Date:
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2583
Philippe I, Duke d’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
Size 19.5 x 30 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2091
Antoine Petit and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets French physicians
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets was a French physician. Born in the French village of Dricourt in 1755, Corvisart translated Leopold von Auenbrugg’s Inventum Novum from Latin into French. Corvisart was especially fond of Auenbrugg’s use of chest percussion as a diagnostic tool, and began to perfect the technique.
Antoine Petit was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d’Azyr.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2326
Louis, Grand Dauphin of France 1661-1711
Louis, Dauphin of France, commonly known as le Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of his own son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the Petit Dauphin.
Artist: Sysang
Date:
Size 18 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:163
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine 1604-1675
Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:910
Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise 1614-1664
Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise was the second son of Charles, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse.
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2043
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine 1643-1690
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy.
Size 9.3 x 15.3 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:239