Fought for the French in the Seven Years War, then transferred to the Austrian service; Field Marshal in the Imperial Army; relieved the siege of Mantua in 1796 but was taken prisoner by Napoleon when the emperor retook the city the following year, dying in captivity.
Artist: Jacob Adam
Date:1796
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1849
Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign
Size 7 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2384
General Antoine Drouot, Comte Drouot 1774 -1847 was a French officer who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Drouot is one of a select group who were present at both the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) and the Battle of Waterloo (1815).Drouot’s name is inscribed on the western pillar under the Arc de Triomphe.
Artist: H.Garnier
Date:
Size 16 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:666
Marie Joséphine of Savoy (Italian: Maria Giuseppina Luisa; 2 September 1753 – 13 November 1810) was a princess of France and Countess of Provence by marriage to the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was regarded by Bourbon royalist Legitimists as the titular ‘Queen of France’ when her husband assumed the title of king in 1795 upon the death of his nephew, the titular King Louis XVII of France, until her death. She was never practically queen, as she died before her husband actually became king in 1814.
Date:
Size 9.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1685
Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, was the third son of Francis, Duke of Guise, and Anna d’Este.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:636
Frenchwoman who in 1821 pulled her paralysed partner in a handcart from Bordeaux to Paris in hope of finding work there.
Artist: Adle J.de Mance
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1467
French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors
Artist: Geoffroy
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2455
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2320
French archaeologist, engraver, and man of letters. The only son of the Marquise de Caylus, he fought with distinction in the War of the Spanish Succession
Artist: De Lorraine
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2101
Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis d’Esternay, baron de Bransac, French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters, was born in Paris. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Anne de Tubières, comte de Caylus.
Artist: E.Conquy
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1445