Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great
Artist: Frisch
Date:
Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2845
Louis René Édouard de Rohan , prince de Rohan-Guéméné, was a French bishop of Strasbourg, politician, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and cadet of the Rohan family (which traced its origin to the kings of Brittany).
Artist: Duval
Date:1786
Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1201
Favourite of King Louis XIII of France, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies against the Cardinal Richelieu, the king’s powerful first minister.
Artist: Balthazar Moncornet
Size 11.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:357
John I was a scion of the French royal family who ruled the Burgundian State from 1404 until his assassination in 1419.
Size 9.3 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:464
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.
Date:
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:631
The House of Guise, a branch of the House of Lorraine He is the youngest son of Charles I of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, and Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, Lady of Joinville. Received as a Knight of Malta at a very young age. In 1644, he served at the siege of Gravelines. He died at the siege of Cambrai on September 6, 1653, and was buried in the Saint Laurent collegiate church in Joinville3.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2182
Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, sometimes called Le Balafré, was the eldest son of Francis, Duke of Guise, and Anna d’Este. His maternal grandparents were Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Renée of France
Size 17 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2728
Portrait of Louis Henri Duc de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, after Gobert; half-length, looking to the left, holding baton and wearing armour, sash, and the insignia of the Golden Fleece; oval frame; coat of arms with crown and insignia of the orders of St Michel, the Golden Fleece and the Saint-Esprit on the plinth
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Gober
Date:1692
Size 14.5 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1662
Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (6 June 1646 – 2 July 1699) was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She was the fourth of the five famous Mancini sisters, who, along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes.
Subject gender: Female
Artist:
Date:
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:670
Statesman, lawyer, and humanist who, as chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568, was instrumental in the adoption by the French government of a policy of toleration toward the Huguenots.
Artist: Blanchard
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1439