Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
Artist: Sanlerre
Date:
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1800
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine was an illegitimate son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan. The king’s favourite son, he was the founder of the semi-royal House of Bourbon-Maine named after his title and his surname.
Size 10 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:282
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy–Carignano was a member of the House of Savoy and Generalfeldmarschall of the Imperial Army and statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria
Size 26 x 28 cms
Price £55.00
Ref:2478
Adam de Craponne was a French engineer he built the channel bearing his name.
Artist: Dequevawller
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1444
Jean-Baptiste Chappe d’Auteroche was a French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769
Artist: Fredou
Date:
Size 18 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2099
French manufacturer of scientific instruments,
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2322
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
Artist Balthasar Moncornet. (circa 1600-1668)
Size 11 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:351
Claude de Lorraine, also called Claude de Guise, was a French noble and husband of Marie de Rohan. He was the Duke of Chevreuse, a title which is today used by the Duke of Luynes.
Artist: Sysang
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:466
Friedrich Hermann von Schönberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, 1st Count of Mertola, KG PC was a Marshal of France and a General in the English and Portuguese Army. He was killed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:913
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.
Artist: A.Bloem
Date:1670
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2178