Category Archives: French

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Louis d’Arpajon 1590-1679

Marquis de Sévérac, Comte de Rodez, Vicomte de Montal, Baron de Salvagnac, de Montclar and other places was a military leader under Louis XIII. He played a major role in the effort to return the southwestern provinces (Languedoc and Guyenne) to Catholicism. His military career was based on the Thirty Years’ War, in which he took part in the Rhineland and Franche-Comté, as well as in the fight against the Huguenots and the Turks in Malta in 1645
Artist: Moncornet
Date:
Size 11.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:995

Georges Cuvier 1769-1832

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the “founding father of paleontology”.
Size 14 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2208

André Masséna, duc de Rivoli, prince d’Essling 1758-1817

André Masséna, duc de Rivoli, prince d’Essling (born May 6, 1758, Nice, France—died April 4, 1817, Paris) was a leading French general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Orphaned at an early age, Masséna enlisted in the Royal Italian regiment in the French service in 1775.
Artist: Tigeot
Date:1804
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:736

Jean Louis de Bussy-Rabutin

Jean-Louis de Rabutin , Count of Bussy, born in 1642 and died November 15, 1716 in Vienna , French military officer.
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Date:
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:693

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

Ref:2473

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

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

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

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