Category Archives: Picart

Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz 1613-1679

French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the Fronde.
The Florentine banking and noble Gondi family had been introduced into France by Catherine de’ Medici; Catherine offered Jérome (Girolamo) de Gondi in 1573 the château that he made the nucleus of the Château de Saint-Cloud; his hôtel in the Faubourg Saint-Germain of Paris became the Hôtel de Condé in the following generation. The Gondi acquired great estates in Brittany and became connected with the noblest houses of the kingdom.

Artist/Engraver Picart
Size 19 x 14 cms
Price £18.00

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Count Ernst Adalbert of Harrach 1598-1667

Count Ernst Adalbert of Harrach (Ernst Adalbert von Harrach; Czech: Arnošt Vojtěch hrabé z Harrach; 4 November 1598 – 25 October 1667) was an Austrian Catholic Cardinal who was appointed Archbishop of Prague and Prince-Bishop of Trento.

Artist/Engraver Picart
Size 20 x 15cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3657

Papal Procession Rome Saint John Lateran by Picart 1723

“ Le pape va en cérémonie prendre possesion du Pontificat dans l’Eglise St Jean de Latran qui est la capitale de toute celles qui relevent de la juridiction du Pape dans la Chrétieneté ”

from Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde.
by Bernard Picart 1673-1733

Large antique copper plate engraving on paper 43 x 54 cm
Full margins original centre fold.

Price £68.00

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