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Jean Bart. Ne a Dunkerque en 1650. Mort en 1702. Du grand Louis Jean-Bart etendit la puissance, L'Empire de Thetis admira sa valeur Et toujours ce soutien du pavillon de France Sera de nos marins le modele & l'honneur. Dedie aux Marins, a l'honneur, au courage et a l'amour de la patrie. En 181 paroitra le Portrait de l'Admiral Nelson.
Peint d'apres Nature par Hyacinthe Rigaud. Grave par Perrot.
Publie a Paris en 181 par Mr. Bernardini Illyrien, ancien Commissaire Principal de la Marine, de S.M. le Roi des Deux Siciles. Depose a la Direction generale.
Stipple printed in colour. Sheet 360 x 445mm. Tatty margins with some discolouration.
Jean Bart, French naval commander and privateer, who achieved his greatest successes during the War of the Grand Alliance (1688 - 1697). He captured 386 ships, destroying many more..
[Ref: 4902] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Peint d'apres Nature par Hyacinthe Rigaud. Grave par Perrot.
Publie a Paris en 181 par Mr. Bernardini Illyrien, ancien Commissaire Principal de la Marine, de S.M. le Roi des Deux Siciles. Depose a la Direction generale.
Stipple printed in colour. Sheet 360 x 445mm. Tatty margins with some discolouration.
Jean Bart, French naval commander and privateer, who achieved his greatest successes during the War of the Grand Alliance (1688 - 1697). He captured 386 ships, destroying many more..
[Ref: 4902] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Gedeon Berbier Du Metz. Con.er du Roy en ses Con.ils President en sa Chambre des Comptes.
Hyachinte Rigault Pinxit. Edelinck Eques Romanus Sculp. C. P. R.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 400 x 300mm (15¾ x 11¾") very large margins. Slightly foxed.
Gédéon Berbier du Metz (16261709), President of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris.
R.D 190 III.
[Ref: 49423] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
Hyachinte Rigault Pinxit. Edelinck Eques Romanus Sculp. C. P. R.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 400 x 300mm (15¾ x 11¾") very large margins. Slightly foxed.
Gédéon Berbier du Metz (16261709), President of the Chambre des Comptes (Chamber of Accounts) in Paris.
R.D 190 III.
[Ref: 49423] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
Giovan Battista Cipriani, Esqr. R.A.
Rigaud, Pinxit. R.Earlom, Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sepr. 29h. 1789, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall London.
Very fine stipple. Open letter state. Platemark: 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Italian painter and engraver Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785), turned to the right, facing the viewer, holdng a paintbrush and palette with a painting on an easel in the background.
[Ref: 40129] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Rigaud, Pinxit. R.Earlom, Sculpsit.
Publish'd Sepr. 29h. 1789, by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall London.
Very fine stipple. Open letter state. Platemark: 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"), with very large margins.
A head and shoulders portrait of Italian painter and engraver Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785), turned to the right, facing the viewer, holdng a paintbrush and palette with a painting on an easel in the background.
[Ref: 40129] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Melchior S.R.E. Presbyter, tituli S.tæ Mariæ de Angelis ad terminos Cardinalis de Polignac, Archiepiscopus Auscitanus, Abbas e Comes Corbeiæ, Aquiscineti, Boniportus, Mausonii et Begarü, Regiorum Ordinum Commedator, Regüs apud Sanctam Sedem negotüs Præfectus, antea Ludivici Magni Legatus in Poloniam et Bataviam, Sacræ Rotæ Auditor et Regü Sacelli Magister.
Peint par Hyacinte Rigaud, Chevalier de l'Orde de St. Michel. Gravé par Francois Chereau, Graveur du Cabinet du Roi 1729.
Engraving. Framed, visible area 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"). Worm holes, unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, Archbishop of Auch (1661-1741), also diplomat and poet. He is shown wearing the Collar of the Order of the Holy Spirit, awarded to him in 1728. After his death Frederick the Great bought his acclaimed collection of marble statues, which he had collected through his archaeological work in Rome.
[Ref: 57237] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Peint par Hyacinte Rigaud, Chevalier de l'Orde de St. Michel. Gravé par Francois Chereau, Graveur du Cabinet du Roi 1729.
Engraving. Framed, visible area 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"). Worm holes, unexamined out of frame.
A portrait of Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, Archbishop of Auch (1661-1741), also diplomat and poet. He is shown wearing the Collar of the Order of the Holy Spirit, awarded to him in 1728. After his death Frederick the Great bought his acclaimed collection of marble statues, which he had collected through his archaeological work in Rome.
[Ref: 57237] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Charles Louis Auguste Foucquel de Belle-isle Duke of Gisors, Prince of the Holy Empire, Marechal of France &c.
Rigaud pinxit. G. Johnson fecit.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Crease in centre. Trimmed into image on three sides, inscription area shaved.
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684-1791), the French general and statesman. In 1758, King Louis XV made him Secretary of State of War, a position that Belle-Isle held until his death. He also had an interest in literature and was elected a member of the French National Academy in 1740.
Not in Chaloner Smith. Not in BM.
[Ref: 52784] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Rigaud pinxit. G. Johnson fecit.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 335 x 245mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Crease in centre. Trimmed into image on three sides, inscription area shaved.
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684-1791), the French general and statesman. In 1758, King Louis XV made him Secretary of State of War, a position that Belle-Isle held until his death. He also had an interest in literature and was elected a member of the French National Academy in 1740.
Not in Chaloner Smith. Not in BM.
[Ref: 52784] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Louis Hector Duc de Villars, Pair et Maral. De Fr.ce. Chevalier des Ords. Du Roy, Genal. de Ses Armées, et Gouvernr. De Provence, Pour S.M. Victorie remportée sur les Alliez au Camp de Denain en Flanders. Anagrame. Louis Hector de Villars. Le Heros de la Victoire. Quatrain sur l'Anagrame. Porter l'Auguste nom d'Heros de la Victoire, Par mille et mille exploits en relever la gloire. Et Marcher pas-a-pas sur les traces de Mars, Il n'appartient qua toy Louis Hector de Villars.
Hyacint Rigaud pinx. Holls Desrochers ex.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Line engraving. Image 394 x 293mm. Trimmed and laid on a sheet. Crease.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis and Duc de Villars and Vicomte de Melun (1653-1734) was the last great general of Louis XIV of France and one of the most brilliant commanders in French military history, one of only six Marshals that have been promoted to Marshal General of France. He entered the French army through the corps of pages in 1671. He distinguished himself at twenty in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War and after the bloody Battle of Seneffe a year later he was promoted on the field to mestre de camp of a cavalry regiment. The next promotion would take time in spite of a long record of excellent service under Turenne, The Great Condé and Luxembourg, and of his aristocratic birth. The reason was that he had incurred the enmity of the powerful Louvois, he was finally made maréchal de camp in 1687. In the interval between the Dutch wars and the formation of the League of Augsburg, Villars, who combined with his military gifts the tact and subtlety of the diplomatist, was employed in an unofficial mission to the court of Bavaria, and there became the constant companion of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. He returned to France in 1690 and was given a command in the cavalry of the army in Flanders, but towards the end of the War of the Grand Alliance he went to Vienna as ambassador. His part in the next war beginning with Friedlingen (1702) and Hochstadt (1703) and ending with Denain (1712), has made him immortal. For Friedlingen he received the marshalate, and for the pacification of the insurgent Cévennes the Saint-Esprit order and the title of duke. Friedlingen and Hochstadt were barren victories, and the campaigns of which they formed part records of lost opportunities. Villars's glory thus begins with the year 1709 when France, apparently helpless, was roused to a great effort of self-defence by the stringent demands of the Coalition. Villars played a conspicuous part in the politics of the Regency period as the principal opponent of Cardinal Dubois, and he took the field for the last time in the War of the Polish Succession (1734), with the title marshal-general of the king's armies.
[Ref: 12563] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Hyacint Rigaud pinx. Holls Desrochers ex.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Line engraving. Image 394 x 293mm. Trimmed and laid on a sheet. Crease.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis and Duc de Villars and Vicomte de Melun (1653-1734) was the last great general of Louis XIV of France and one of the most brilliant commanders in French military history, one of only six Marshals that have been promoted to Marshal General of France. He entered the French army through the corps of pages in 1671. He distinguished himself at twenty in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War and after the bloody Battle of Seneffe a year later he was promoted on the field to mestre de camp of a cavalry regiment. The next promotion would take time in spite of a long record of excellent service under Turenne, The Great Condé and Luxembourg, and of his aristocratic birth. The reason was that he had incurred the enmity of the powerful Louvois, he was finally made maréchal de camp in 1687. In the interval between the Dutch wars and the formation of the League of Augsburg, Villars, who combined with his military gifts the tact and subtlety of the diplomatist, was employed in an unofficial mission to the court of Bavaria, and there became the constant companion of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. He returned to France in 1690 and was given a command in the cavalry of the army in Flanders, but towards the end of the War of the Grand Alliance he went to Vienna as ambassador. His part in the next war beginning with Friedlingen (1702) and Hochstadt (1703) and ending with Denain (1712), has made him immortal. For Friedlingen he received the marshalate, and for the pacification of the insurgent Cévennes the Saint-Esprit order and the title of duke. Friedlingen and Hochstadt were barren victories, and the campaigns of which they formed part records of lost opportunities. Villars's glory thus begins with the year 1709 when France, apparently helpless, was roused to a great effort of self-defence by the stringent demands of the Coalition. Villars played a conspicuous part in the politics of the Regency period as the principal opponent of Cardinal Dubois, and he took the field for the last time in the War of the Polish Succession (1734), with the title marshal-general of the king's armies.
[Ref: 12563] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Jean Balthazar Keller, natif de Zurich en Suisse, Commissaire general des Fontes de L'Artillerie de France.
Hyac.s Rigaud pinxit. P. Drevet Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Bligny, Peintre M.d d'Estampes Cour du Manége [n.d., c.1775.].
Engraving. 465 x 360mm (18¼ x 14¼"). A few small tears in margins, small crease.
Portrait of Jean-Balthazar Keller (1638-1702), Swiss gunfounder who replaced his brother Jean-Jacques as master of the French foundries in 1694. He is shown leaning on an unfinished cannon, gesturing at his equestrian statue of Louis XIV. This statue was cast in a single piece in 1692, the first time this had been achieved. Placed in the Place Vendôme, it was destroyed in 1792 during the French revolution, a few months short of its centenary. Painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud in 1694 to celebrate Keller's two achievements, this print was first issued c.1700. The publisher here, Honoré Thomas Bligny, specialised in reissuing plates.
[Ref: 49398] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Hyac.s Rigaud pinxit. P. Drevet Sculpsit.
A Paris chez Bligny, Peintre M.d d'Estampes Cour du Manége [n.d., c.1775.].
Engraving. 465 x 360mm (18¼ x 14¼"). A few small tears in margins, small crease.
Portrait of Jean-Balthazar Keller (1638-1702), Swiss gunfounder who replaced his brother Jean-Jacques as master of the French foundries in 1694. He is shown leaning on an unfinished cannon, gesturing at his equestrian statue of Louis XIV. This statue was cast in a single piece in 1692, the first time this had been achieved. Placed in the Place Vendôme, it was destroyed in 1792 during the French revolution, a few months short of its centenary. Painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud in 1694 to celebrate Keller's two achievements, this print was first issued c.1700. The publisher here, Honoré Thomas Bligny, specialised in reissuing plates.
[Ref: 49398] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)