Category Archives: French

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Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine

3485
Charles IV 1604-1675 was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 to 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis, and again from 1661 until 1675 (his death).

Size 33 x 22 cms

Price £28.00

Ref: 3485

3046

LOUIS PHILIPPE COMTE DE SEGUR 1753-1830

French diplomat and historian, son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Segur, was born in Paris in December 1753. He entered the army in 1769, served in the American War of Independence in 1781 as a colonel under Rochambeau

Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Size 14 x 11 cms

Price £14.00

 

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3035

Charles the Bold 1433-1477

Charles the Bold ,Charles le Téméraire, 1433 -1477, baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Valois Duke of Burgundy.

Subject gender: Male
Artist: N.Hasitt

Size 30 x 19 cms

Price £28.00

 

Ref: 3035

2473

Alexis Claude Clairaut 1713-1765 mathematician

Alexis Claude Clairaut was a French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687
Artist: C.N.Cochin
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00

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2332

Sebastien Erard 1752-1831 piano maker

Sébastien Érard was a French instrument maker of German origin who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano.
Artist: Hardiviller
Date:
Size 11 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2332

2106

Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni 1695-1766

Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni was a French decorator, architect, scene-painter, firework designer and trompe-l’œil specialist. He was born in Florence, the son of a French carriage driver.
Artist: Colson
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2106

1464

Apolline Aubert d’Aubigny viscountess Dumoulin 1755-1831

Viscountess Dumoulin, a distant cousin (through her mother) of de la Fontaine, was instrumental in bringing the Brothers of the Christian Schools to Château-Thierry in 1831. A school was opened on Rue de la Madeleine with the approval of Mayor Poan de Sapincourt and the prefect. It was a three-classroom school with three brothers and a headmaster. The Viscountess was born in 1755 and died in 1831 in Château-Thierry.

Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Durupt
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1464

1680

Jean-François Regnard

Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), “the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century”,[1] was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681.
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1680

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