French officer under King Louis XIV and Minister of War,
in the background the burning of Heidelberg
Engraver Johann Friedrich (the Elder), 1668-1716
Size 20 x 15 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3538
Category Archives: French
Philip III Duke of Burgundy 1396–1467
Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonged. During his reign, the Burgundian State reached the apex of its prosperity and prestige, and became a leading centre of the arts
Size 12 x 7 cm
Price £12.00
Ref:3534
Guy-Crescent Fagon 1638-1718
French physician and botanist. He came from nobility and his uncle, Guy de La Brosse, had founded the Royal Gardens. Fagon was director of the gardens too. His substitute professors were Gilles-François Boulduc, Antoine de Saint-Yon and Étienne François Geoffroy.
Artist/Engraver Forestier
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3654
Paul Jean Pierre Sauzet 1800-1876
French lawyer and politician from Lyon who was Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs for a few months in 1836 and was President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1839 until the February Revolution of 1848.
Artist/Engraver Giroux, Émile
Size 26 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3653
Alexandre Dumas fils 1824-1895
Alexandre Dumas fils was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 opera La traviata as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English-language versions.Dumas fils was the son of Alexandre Dumas père , also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Artist/Engraver Weger
Size 25 x 20 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3638
Papal Procession Rome Saint John Lateran by Picart 1723
“ Le pape va en cérémonie prendre possesion du Pontificat dans l’Eglise St Jean de Latran qui est la capitale de toute celles qui relevent de la juridiction du Pape dans la Chrétieneté ”
from Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde.
by Bernard Picart 1673-1733
Large antique copper plate engraving on paper 43 x 54 cm
Full margins original centre fold.
Price £68.00
Ref:3519xl
Claude de Mesmes, comte d’Avaux
Claude de Mesmes, comte d’Avaux 1595–165) was a 17th-century French diplomat and public administrator, one of France’s leading diplomats in the first half of the century. He was Superintendent of Finances of France from 1649 to 1650.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: after Paulus Pontius
Size 17 x 12.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:833
Francis I of France 1494-1547
King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his cousin and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a son.
Size 9 x 8 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3515
Jean Astruc 1684-1766
Professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.
Artist: Louis Halbou.,
Size 15 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3103
Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle
Comte de Lasalle 1775-1809, French cavalry general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, often called “The Hussar General”. He first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Over the course of his short career, he became known as a daring adventurer and was credited with many exploits; some true, others probably fanciful. Eventually, he fought on every front and was killed at the Battle of Wagram.
Artist/Engraver: Antoine-Jean Gros 1771-1835
Size 27 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3493