François d’Orléans, Prince de Joinville was the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours
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Size 14.5 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:665
Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy, was the eldest son of Louis, Grand Dauphin, and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria and grandson of the reigning French king, Louis XIV. He is commonly known as le Petit Dauphin to distinguish him from his father.
Artist: Larmessin, Nicolas de (1632-1694)
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Size 16 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1647
Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur and of Penthièvre was a French soldier, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a prominent member of the Catholic League, who fought for Breton political independence from the House of Bourbon.
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1641
French manufacturer of scientific instruments,
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Boilly
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Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2322
Prince of Conti from 1666 to his death. He was the son of Armand de Bourbon and Anne Marie Martinozzi, the daughter of Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini, elder sister of Cardinal Mazarin. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of the Blood. He was a son-in-law of King Louis XIV of France, who was his namesake.
Artist: Larmessin
Date:1661
Size 17 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1588
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon was a French military leader, the Count of Montpensier, Clermont and Auvergne, and Dauphin of Auvergne from 1501 to 1523, then Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Forez and La Marche, and Lord of Beaujeu from 1505 to 1521.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2520
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675;
Size 6.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:912
Favourite of King Louis XIII of France, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies against the Cardinal Richelieu, the king’s powerful first minister.
Artist: Balthazar Moncornet
Size 11.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:357
French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588. In 1596, when he made peace with Henry IV of France, the wars were essentially at an end.
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:465
Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general of taxes, Ferme générale, was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college, Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother was Françoise de Ponthon (died 1738)
Artist: Voyez
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Size 18 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2112