Bonchamp-lès-Laval 1761-1844 Also known as Le Breton; pupil of Vincent and David; professeur de dessin et de perspective at the Institution des sourds-muets. The only recorded painting is a portrait (at Pontoise) which received the premier prix Montyon in 1834. A drawing dedicated by him to “Isabey père” in 1844 testifies to his friendship with another David pupil.
Artist: Bouvier
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2184
French professor of medicine who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Monnct
Date:
Size 17 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2100
Peasant from the Yonne who rose to become librarian at the court of Lorraine. His Mémoires, written c. 1733–47, but published in full only in the 20th century
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1437
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: J.B.Champagne
Date:
Size 9.5 x 13 cms
Price: SOLD
Ref:766
French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams.
Size 9.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:343
One of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance, whose use of the forms and imagery of Latin poetry had marked influence on the style of his successors.
Artist: Holbein
Date:
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1900
Daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, légitimée de France, a legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was the wife of Louis Armand II de Bourbon, Prince of Conti.
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2374
Claire Charlotte Eugénie d’Ailly was a French aristocrat, born in Chaulnes on April 26, 1606, died in Magny (now Guiscard) on June 15, 1681, married to Honoré d’Albert, first Duke of Chaulnes, Marshal of France.
Artist: B.Moncornet
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1566
Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after the death of his uncle, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine.
Artist: Harreoun
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:882
Baron d’Arques, Duc de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, Governor of Normandie
Anne de Batarnay de Joyeuse, Baron d’Arques, Vicomte then Duke of Joyeuse was a royal favourite and active participant in the French Wars of Religion. An intimate friend of Henry III of France,
Size 12.5 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1932