Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d’Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later at age sixteen.
Engraving by Pierre-Charles Ingouf 1746–1800
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2108
Famous French surgeon and urologist of the 18th century
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Benoit Louis Henriquez, After Jean-Bernard Restout (1732 – 1796)
Date:1771
Size 18 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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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
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Françoise de Graffigny, born Françoise d’Issembourg of Buisson d’Happoncourt, better known as Madame de Graffigny, was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.
Artist: Leveque
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
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Henri François d’Aguesseau was Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750 and pronounced by Voltaire to be “the most learned magistrate France ever possessed”
Artist: R.Tourniere
Date:1720
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
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Pierre VI Gilbert de Voisins lord of Voisins, Haute-Isle and Chantenesle (Mantois), marquis de Villennes, lord of Mauger, Bouconvillers, Châtelain de Villennes and de Médan, King’s Advocate at Châtelet (1703), adviser to Parliament (1707), master of requests (1711), member of the Finance Council (1713), 1st Advocate-General (1718, resigned 1737), State Councillor (1740) , 1st President of the Grand-Conseil (1744), ordinary State Councillor (1747), member of the Council for Dispatches (1757).
Artist: Charles Duplessis
Date:1772
Size 17 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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Henri François d’Aguesseau was Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750 and pronounced by Voltaire to be “the most learned magistrate France ever possessed”.
Artist: R.Tourniere
Date:1720
Size 17 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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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
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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
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Jean-Baptiste Chappe d’Auteroche was a French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769
Artist: Fredou
Date:
Size 18 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
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