André Masséna, Prince of Essling, Duke of Rivoli was a French military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon I. He was nicknamed l’Enfant chéri de la Victoire (the Dear Child of Victory). He is often considered as one of the greatest generals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.:
Date:1804
Size 13.5 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:599
Marie Louise Élisabeth of France was a French princess, the eldest daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort, Maria Leszczyńska, and the elder twin of Anne Henriette de France.
Size 16 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:378
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697
Size 7 x 8 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2658
Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:910
The son of Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and his wife, Anne de Montafié, Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. A second cousin of Louis XIII of France he was a prince du Sang, those considered part of the royal family
Size 11.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:355
Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
Date:1668
Size 15.5 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:575
Fought for the French in the Seven Years War, then transferred to the Austrian service; Field Marshal in the Imperial Army; relieved the siege of Mantua in 1796 but was taken prisoner by Napoleon when the emperor retook the city the following year, dying in captivity.
Artist: Jacob Adam
Date:1796
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1849
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2320
Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He became the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Austria, and Tuscany through his marriage to Maria Theresa, daughter of Emperor Charles VI
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:584
Born in 1661 at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis de France was the first son of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain. During his lifetime as Dauphin, he was called “Monseigneur”, but was given the name “Grand Dauphin” after his death in 1711, to distinguish him from his son, the Duke of Burgundy.
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:671