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Marin. Curaeus a Camera Cenoman. Regi a Sanctior. Consil. Et Med. Ordin.
Marin. Curaeus a Camera Cenoman. Regi a Sanctior. Consil. Et Med. Ordin.
P. Mignard Romanus Pinxit. Ant. Mason Sculpebat. 1665.
Copper Engraving. 280 x 227mm. 11 x 9". Cut.
Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1594-1669) was a French physician and philosopher. He was court councellor and physician to Louis XIII, and entered the Académie Française in 1634 and the Academy of Sciences in 1666.
Ex Norman Blackburn Collection. W: 1648-2.
[Ref: 21142]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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Marie de Lorraine Duchesse de Guise Princesse de Joinvil.le.
Marie de Lorraine Duchesse de Guise Princesse de Joinvil.le.
Petrus Mignard Pinxit. Roma. Ant.us Masson Delineavit et Sculpsit Parisijs 1684.
Engraving. 325 x 230mm (12¾ x 9"), 17th century watermark. Mounted in album paper at edges. Time stained.
Portrait in oval of Marie de Lorraine (1615-88). She was the last member of the House of Guise: under this portrait is a vignette of a solitary tree in a forest of stumps, to indicate her position as last survivor. The Latin motto 'Succisas dat conjectare superstes' translates as 'The survivor bears witness to the fallen'.
[Ref: 64044]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cardinal Jules Mazarin.]
[Cardinal Jules Mazarin.]
F. Migard, P. F. Poilly Sculp. 1660.
Engraving. 400 x 295mm (15¾ x 11½"). Trimmed within image, small nick in bottom edge, creased, ink collector's stamp affecting bottom right corner.
Cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin (1602-61), an Italian cardinal who Chief Minister to Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 until his death.
Ink stamp unidentified.
[Ref: 49643]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Moliere.
Moliere.
Mignard Pinx.t. P.M. Alix Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1790.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours. Sheet 325 x 255mm (12¾ x 10"). Trimmed to plate, horizontal fold, laid on album paper.
A portrait of Jean Baptiste Poqelin (1622-1673), better known as Molière, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.
[Ref: 52843]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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L’Esté. AEstas.
L’Esté. AEstas. Le Sacrifice en l’honneur de Ceres. Peint dans la Gallerie de Son Altesse Royale Monsieur a St. Cloud. Sacrificium Deae Cereri. La Tabula depicta in Peristylio Seren. Principis Ducis Aurelix in Palatio S.ti Clodovaei.
Peint par P.M. grand excuyer j.er. Peintre du Roy.
Se vend a Paris chez N. de Poilly rue S.te Iacques a la belle Image C.P.R. [n.d. c.1696, but later.]
Engraving with small margins. Plate 270 x 362mm. 10¾ x 14¼". Slight crease in centre
Summer: sacrifice to Ceres, with young women carrying a statue of the goddess and standing next to a tripod, at the bottom of which a man is sacrificing a pig. From a set of four plates reproducing the compositions designed by Mignard for the decoration of the chateau of Saint-Cloud, c.1677/80.
[Ref: 26572]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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